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Orthodoxies serve to exploit the moral authority of an inherited doctrine in the interest of a ruling group.

- Isaac Deutscher

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

- Thomas Paine

History may measure the worth of a nation not by the lilt of its slogans or the might of its arsenals or its troyweights of gold, but by how evenhandedly it has dealt with all its citizens and how consistently it has denied dignity to none.

- Richard Kluger

In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

- Karl Popper

Everyone should have biases, and should be forgiven them.

- Scott Weidensaul

The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens.

- Edward Snowden

No national culture can have a healthy and continuous growth without being periodically fertilized by fresh inspiration and new ideas from abroad.

- C. R. Boxer

Wherever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.

- Lawrence Wright

A dungeon is as good a place as any for a patriot to serve his country in time of strain.

- Shelby Foote

Better 60 years of tyranny than 1 day of anarchy.

- An Arab proverb

Class is defined by men as they live their own history.

- E.P. Thompson

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

- Rice v. Cayetano

It is collective self-consciousness which distinguishes the 19th century working class from the 18th century mob.

- E. P. Thompson

The lord prefers common looking people, that is why he made so many of them.

- Abraham Lincoln

The mass is always the magnified reflection of some individual.

- Harry Reichenbach

Institutions are the shadows of men.

- Emerson

The more hierarchical a society becomes, the stronger is the cultural dominion of its elite.

- David Hackett Fischer

There will always be an inner circle of corporate executives, politicians, lawyers, and judges to control the others and obtain the real rewards.

- Theodore Roosevelt

There’s always a best hotel in every town. And the best room of the best hotel always has someone in it.

- J. Paul Getty

The river of power flows from the Ivy League.

- Joe Biden

The magnet which attracts corrupters and the natural locus of corruption is always where the discretionary power resides.

- Edward Costikyan

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

He that drinks cider alone. Let him catch his horse alone.

- Benjamin Franklin

Politics is no science, it is an art. And anyone without the knack for it should leave it alone.

- Otto Von Bismarck

I will tell you what politics is about. I make a decision. I tell someone else the opposite. Then I do something which surprises even myself.

- Saddam Hussein

He who cannot obey cannot command.

- Aristotle

To know how to deceive is the knowledge of kings.

- Richelieu

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

- Julia Coleman

Wherever there is drought, then the stronger seizes upon the weaker, for the waters are the law.

- Satapatha Brahmana

The weak are cruel, gentleness can be expected only from the strong.

- Leo Rosten

Hells hottest fires burn for hypocrites.

- Edwin Edwards

All your friends are false, all your enemies are real.

- A Mexican proverb

Mistrust is the mother of security.

- Samuel de Champlain

The world still has its glittering prizes for those with stout hearts and sharp swords.

- F. E. Smith

There are things that must be concealed in order to be attained. Proclaiming them for what they are would give rise to obstacles too formidable to be overcome.

- José Martí

The hand you dare not bite, kiss it.

- Calouste Gulbenkian

Val più avere amici in piazza che denari nella cassa.

- Italian proverb

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

- Henry Flagler

The steepest places have been at all times the asylum of liberty.

- Baron de Tott