Quote by Vaclav Havel
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. – Vaclav Havel

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel

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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life well ever see on this earth! – Ronald Reagan

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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. – Isaac Watts

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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! – Eddie Izzard

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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. – Franklin Pierce

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