"Politics is more difficult than physics."
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."
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"Never judge a country by its politicians."
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"Even when I was wrong, I got my point across."
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"Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight."
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"Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them."
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"In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee."
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"A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind."
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"Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts."
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"By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves."
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"I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters."
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"Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions."
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"No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins."
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"I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others."
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"The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends."
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"Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."
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"In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations."
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"Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches."
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