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There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.


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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.



A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.



No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.



There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.



America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.



It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.



It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.



To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.



The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.



The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.





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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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