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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."
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"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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