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Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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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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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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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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If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

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Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Giving Quotes , Political Quotes

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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Keep up appearances whatever you do.

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What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

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You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

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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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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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