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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

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They wanted me to be a Washington.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

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With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

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I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

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Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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