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

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Democracy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Politics is show business for ugly people.

  Paul Begala

  People, Ugly, Politics

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• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  Martin Luther

  Running, Fighting, Justice

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• I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1952.

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• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Independence, Too Much

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• Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Association, Moral

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.134, Ignatius Press

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• Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.

  Bernard Lewis

  Jesus, Strong, People

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• I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

  Roger Stone

  School, Kids, Lines

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• Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

  Saul Alinsky

  Tactics, Shifting, Action

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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