"Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought."

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“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

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“Style…is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.”

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— Ma Ying-jeou

Politics1950

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Politics1964

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