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Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

- Mark Twain

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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

- Will Rogers

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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

- Blaise Pascal

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

- Nikita Krushchev

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Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

- John Kerry

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

- H. L. Mencken

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The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941]

- Edward Dowling

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]

- Adlai Stevenson

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

- Robert M. Hutchins

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As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

- William O. Douglas

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

- Plato

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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

- Johnny Carson

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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

- Harry S Truman

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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

- H. L. Mencken

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