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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
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Edward F. Halifax

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Walter Savage Landor

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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Jean Rostand

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
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John P. Roche

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Cecil Parkinson

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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John Morley

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In politics the middle way is none at all.
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John Adams

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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Heinrich Heine

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
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Roy Hattersley

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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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Jean Rostand

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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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Mark Twain

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
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Winston Churchill

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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Jerry Brown

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Thomas Carlyle

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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Francis Bacon

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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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Eugene J. Mccarthy

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Abba Eban

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
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W. Somerset Maugham

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Jean Baudrillard

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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Thomas Carlyle

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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