"The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men."
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"The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne."
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"Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke."
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"You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is."
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"Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right."
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"Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense."
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"I have always said the first Whig was the Devil."
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"The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence."
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"Trust not too much to appearances"
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"Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology."
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"I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason."
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"Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason."
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"We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government."
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"Politics is mostly pill-taking."
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"How can a president not be an actor?"
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"To negotiate is not to do as one likes."
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"The sovereignty of the people is inalienable."
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"Passions change, politics are immutable."
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"A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation."
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"A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior."
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