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Law and Politics
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A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, (inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame), in Law and Politics
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
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A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women
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A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
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