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    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
    Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.

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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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What you cannot enforce, do not command.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

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All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks read more

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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by read more

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely read more

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.

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One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.

One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.

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