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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.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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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.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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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.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they throw bricks at me-I'm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw 'em back at 'em.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Speech in a dinner in his honor, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1958
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, the works of Oscar Wilde ed. G., 1954
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