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In 2008, I will join the opposition and criticise the government.

— Vladimir Putin

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Even 50 years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me one thing: if a fight is inevitable, go and fight first.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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