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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

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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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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

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It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

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