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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -
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Plato
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Top 5 quotes from Plato
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
"Death is not the worst than can happen to men."
Top 5 quotes from Good & Evil, Politics
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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