The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

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Goodness armed with power is corrupted, and pure love without power is destroyed.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.