We must be headlights and not taillights. - John Lewis

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If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

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ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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