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Politics Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning
- Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things
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