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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!"
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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