A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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