Samuel Johnson Quotes About Politics
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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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 proceeds upon it.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.
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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 use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.
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