"Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone."

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"Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone."

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H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Never give a good politician time to pray."

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"Democracy passes into despotism."

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"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

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"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

"Never give a good politician time to pray."

"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."