"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program."

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."

John Simon, American Critic

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"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about."

Barbara Lee, American Politician

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

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"Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."

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"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

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