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Harold Wilson · History

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Harold Wilson

A week is a long time in politics.

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

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John Podhoretz

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

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