No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
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The tapes and what's being said on them is being taken out of context by the government,
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What they're doing is totally illegal. You cannot stop and question and search people without a search warrant and probable cause.
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The Colonies . . . are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-Cities . . .
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