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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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Yes! I know what I have to face. I have to face a coalition. The combination may be successful. A coalition has before this been successful. But coalitions, although successful, have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. This too I know, that England does not love coalitions.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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With words we govern men.
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
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I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
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