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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

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Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. ↗

— Barney Frank

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ↗

— Socrates

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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ↗

— Socrates

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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. ↗

— Hans Frank

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