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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Gentleman, Liberty

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Hypocrisy, People

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• Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, Decay, Chaos

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Minorities, Politics

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Mean, Goes On

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Ignorant, Empires, Facts

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• Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

  Che Guevara

  Hands, Umpires, Battle

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• Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

  Che Guevara

  Adventure, Risk, Skins

  Last Letter to his Parents, www.companeroche.com. 1965.

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• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Democracy

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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, America, United States

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.47, BoD – Books on Demand

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

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Politics, Gains

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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• In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ambition, People, Progress

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Politics, Vote, Knows

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Historical, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Politics is show business for ugly people.

  Paul Begala

  People, Ugly, Politics

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• Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Aristocracy, Definitions, Inspired

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• Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

  Benito Mussolini

  Strong, Men, Crowds

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• We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Popular Vote, Judging, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Men, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Government, Judging

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

  John Ralston Saul

  Destiny, Intellectual, Dignity

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• I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Priorities, Way

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

  Aristotle

  Men, Past, Different

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