The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem. Alexei Navalny

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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis

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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way. - John Lewis

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I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

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