Politics Quotes

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Context: • Attributed to Benjamin Franklin; A New Dictionary of Quotations (1942) by H. L. Mencken, p. 682 gives "Where liberty dwells, there is my country," with a note that this was in a Franklin letter to Benjamin Vaughan, March 14, 1783, but the on-going project, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, has been unable to identify this letter. Alfred Owen Aldridge, Man of Reason, p. 169 (1959) says, "According to a tradition repeated by many biographers of Paine, Franklin at one time remarked in his hearing: 'Where liberty is, there is my country….'" Aldridge adds, "the story must be written off as apocryphal." Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 367 (1982), attributes this to James Otis, as his motto (Ubi libertas, ibi patria), but this has not been verified in either his speeches or biographical sources. It has also been attributed to Algernon Sidney, but has not been verified in any source.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (F)

“Where liberty is, there is my country.”

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Context: • Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York City (9 September 1912)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (W)

“Liberty is its own reward.”

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Context: • Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism, lecture printed without date of publication sometime in the 1890s
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (P)

“Order can only exist where liberty prevails.”

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Context: • John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Ch. VIII, Section XXI
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (R)

“That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.”

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# Politics & Semiotics

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Context: • Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956, 1965).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)

“Dissent is the mark of freedom.”

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Context: • Various; misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.Discussion at urbanlegends.about.com/b/2005/02/15/misattributed-dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism.htm (Misattributed: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism)
• Earliest source The Use of Force in International Affairs, (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), 6, and popularized by various users in the 1960s:Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
• If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
• Other form by Howard Zinn, Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn by Sharon Basco, TomPaine.com, July 03 2002:
• While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

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Context: • Steve Sailer, "World War T", Taki's Magazine, January 22, 2014
• Source: Wikiquote: "Political correctness" (Quotes)

“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”

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Context: • Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, broadcast of 9 March 1954 on CBS TV.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

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Context: • Quoted by Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, J., Manby v. Scott (1672), 1 Levinz. 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th Ed.) 462.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Persuasion" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, S - Z)

“'Tis more than reason that goes to persuasion.”

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# Politics & Articles deleted on the English Wikipedia

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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (United States)

“"Kill the Bill"”

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Context: • "Auch Sie können nicht verhindern, dass ich von Tag zu Tag klüger werde!" (You can't impede my getting wiser day by day.) Konrad AdenauerHartmut Soell: Ideologien und politischer Pragmatismus, edited by Bavarian State Center For Political Education accessed 2009-01-03 – This sentence is often mixed up with the following:
• "Was geht mich mein dummes Geschwätz von vorgestern an!" (What do I care about my yesterday's waffle.) Theodor Heuss
• "Maß halten" (Don't overdo it.) Ludwig Erhard's warning against an overheating economy in the 1960sDie Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ludwig Erhard und das Wirtschaftswunder, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen." (We want to dare more democracy.) Willy Brandt on the plans of the social-liberal coalitionDeutscher Bundestag: 1969 "Mehr Demokratie wagen", accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." (Those who have visions should consult a doctor) Helmut Schmidt about his predecessor Willi Brandthttp://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt, accessed 2009-11-14.
• "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." (With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole.) Joschka FischerPolitiker-Beschimpfungen : 'Arschlöcher' und 'Arrogante Affen ..., accessed 2008-5-26.. He thus addressed the parliament's president after the latter excluded an MP from the debate over an allegation.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)

“West-Germany 1949-1990”

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Context: • "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." (No one intends to build a wall.) Walter Ulbricht, 1961-06-15, less than two months before the Berlin Wall was builtWalter Ulbricht: „Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten, accessed 2008-5-26. Archived 2009-11-01.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)

“East-Germany 1949-1990”

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Context: • "Ich kenne keine Partei mehr, ich kenne nur Deutsche!" (I no longer know of [political] party, I only know Germans) Wilhelm II 1914 in a speech at the parliament, referencing the endorsement of the war by the formerly shunned Social Democrats 4. August 1914; in: Verhandlungen des Reichstags, Stenographische Berichte, 1914/16, Bd. 306, 1f.''
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)

“Imperial Germany 1871-1918”

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Context: • "Wirtschaft ist für die Menschen da, und nicht umgekehrt, und Demokratie gehört bei die Wirtschaft mit bei." (The economy is for the people, and not vice versa, and economy is a part of democracy.) Franz MünteferingFranz Müntefering, Generalsekretär der SPD: Liebe Genossinnen und ..., accessed 2008-5-26. The second part of the compound sentence contains a "folksy" grammatical error that is impossible to translate into English.
• "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so!" (I am gay, and it's fine this way.) Klaus Wowereit, phrasing his coming outCity Mayors: Klaus Wowereit – Mayor of Berlin, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir schaffen das" (we can handle this) Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)

“Berlin Republic 1990-present”

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# Politics & Discourse

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Context: • Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Disinformation and Echo Chambers: How Disinformation Circulates on Social Media Through Identity-Driven Controversies, 2023: 29
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fake news" (Quotes)

“One can fact-check news, but not beliefs.”

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Journalism

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Context: • Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), , p. 58
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, C)

“Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.”

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International relations

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Context: • As quoted by Paul A. Goble, "Putin has Arrested So Many But Can’t Stop a Terrorist Attack, Russians Say after Crocus Action", Window on Eurasia (March 26, 2024)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)

“I dissent; therefore, I exist.”

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Context: • Zhou Enlai, Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, Z)

“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”

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International relations

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Context: • Scott Ritter, in Chris Davis, "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.", Memphis Flyer (May 3, 2008).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, R)

“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”

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International relations

# Politics & Sociology

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Context: • Millicent Fawcett in an address to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solidarity" (Quotes)

“Courage calls to courage everywhere.”

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