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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience…
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence…
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are…
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that…
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time…
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small…
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been…
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America…
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or…
— Maya Angelou
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer…
— Unknown Author
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that…
— Andre Gide
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
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In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the…
— Konrad Lorenz
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
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