William Shakespeare Quotes About Politics
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
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I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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I can give the loser leave to chide.
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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?
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The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
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O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
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Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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