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“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

Long Feelings Political Religious Enemy Movement Lessons Instinct Rely Motive Attempting Agitation Obstruction

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.”

“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.”

Ifs Giving Real Political Passion Language Force Term Lines Written Fashion Constitution Rely Documents Reign Political Systems Binding Compact Generalities Between The Lines

Author:Alex Kozinski

“The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.”

People Men Should Firsts Political Constitution Useless Rely Devices Deceiving Rely Upon Second Place

Book:Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

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Author:Craig Newmark