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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Civil War, Good Man

  American Heritage magazine, December 1955.

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Law

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

  John Adams

  Government, Essence, Politics

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Art, Knowing, Politics

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• Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

  Aesop

  Politics, Venture, Way

  Aesop, Thomas JAMES (Vicar of Sibbertoft.), Sir John Tenniel (1858). “Æsop's Fables: a new version ... By Thomas James ... With ... illustrations, designed by John Tenniel”, p.101

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• You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Patriotic, President

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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, All Time Low, Size

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Wisdom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Poetry, Sorrow

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.

  Chanakya

  Humble, People, Loyal

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• The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

  Chanakya

  Speaks Out, Secret, Wish

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• Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

  Chanakya

  Country, Speaks Out, Knowing

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• Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

  Chanakya

  Love Is, Deeds

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• Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

  Chanakya

  Fate, Grace, Tasks

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• A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

  Chanakya

  Prosperity, Welfare, Consideration

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• All types of riches should be amassed by all means.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Riches, Should

  "Maxims of Chanakya". Book by V. K. Subramanian, September 1980.

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• For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.

  Chanakya

  Strong, People, Suing

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• A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

  Chanakya

  Fate, Men, Tasks

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• Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Mean, Tasks

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• The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Tasks, Impossible

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