"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

Government, Body, Democracy, First

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"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."

John Paul Stevens, American Judge

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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."

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"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."

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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."

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"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."

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"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."

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"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."

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"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached."

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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."

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"After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government."

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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."

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"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."

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