"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
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"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning."
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"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
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"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."
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"Finality is not the language of politics."
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"Presidents are selected, not elected."
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"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read"
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"Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child."
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"All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should."
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"Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself."
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
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"90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related."
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"Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point."
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"The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while."
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"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
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"We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing."
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"Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge."
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"We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors."
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