"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
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"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!"
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"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
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"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions."
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"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
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"Revolutions are always verbose."
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"Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office."
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"War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished."
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"Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said."
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"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."
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"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
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"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king."
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"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"
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"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."
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"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."
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"Democracy can survive anything except Democrats"
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