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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in th

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. – Basil Bunting

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. – Confucius

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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. – Lucy Powell

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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. – Andrew Jackson

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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. – William Hague

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each others throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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Everyone is wise until he speaks. – Proverb

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