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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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The most violent party men are such as, in the conduct of their lives, have discovered least sense of religion or morality, and when such are laid aside as shall be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty to reconcile the rest.
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But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies, or the coalition's forces, with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?
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I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.
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If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation. All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
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The three forms of government have their several perfections, and are subject to their several depravations: however, few states are ruined by defect in their institution, but generally by corruption of manners.
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Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man, it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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