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“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”

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Author:Richard Hofstadter

“George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.”

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“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”

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Author:Frederic Bastiat