"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
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"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths."
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"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class."
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt."
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"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
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"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."
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"Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything."
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"Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle."
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"Patriotism corrupts history."
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"The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior."
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"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
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"Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics."
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
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"The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts."
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"Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
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"One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation."
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"Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people."
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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
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"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen."
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