politics

"I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing …"

"Perhaps most surprisingly, the papers show that that, as late as 1984, the pope did not believe the Communist Polish government could be changed."

"set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and can not let these problems hand on from generation to genera…"

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"Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes."

"Government shouldn't be doing that to a private company. And I think you named it clearly: It's a slush fund."

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"By one road or another, by conviction, by its supposed inevitability, by its alleged success, or even quite unreflectively, almost all politics today have become Rationalist or near-Rationalist."

"No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended suppo…"

"Rab said he thought that the good clean tradition of English politics, that of Pitt as opposed to Fox, had been sold to the greatest adventurer of modern political history. He had tried earnestly and …"

"The issue therefore in a capitalist democracy resolves itself into this: either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy…"

"I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man."

"We were never involved in politics. It was the political party that pushed their agenda, the Bill, forward and we only reacted to the consequences the Bill would bring."

"There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get."

"It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes."

"While in totalitarian regimes, government controls the media and criminalizes journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders who do not echo the State’s propaganda, in numerous democratic countries,…"

"President Bush did nothing of the sort; he declared an end to major hostilities."

"The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way."

"In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it."

"The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct."