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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes
Man is by nature a political animal
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Letter to James Madison, 1787
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