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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

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Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

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It is only when he speaks German, as now, that he allows himself to lament the enslavement of the world's downtrodden classes. "We cannot live in a bu...more

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Gossip till the cows come home.

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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

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There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the f...more

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I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the oppo...more