"Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."
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"Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws."
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"How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?"
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"It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?"
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"It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow."
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"You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout."
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"We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics."
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"I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics."
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"Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves."
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"It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk."
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"No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed."
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"I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear."
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"I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools."
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"My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities."
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"For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how."
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"I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered."
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"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"
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"Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
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"The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives."
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"For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future."
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