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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Address to Radio-Television Executives Society, New York City, September 14, 1955
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Writing of John Tyler, Thomas Hart Benton, chapter 11, 1897
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams, 1906
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901
There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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