"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."

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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."

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."

Stephen King, American Author

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

Stephen King, American Author

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"Democracy passes into despotism."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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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

Politics, States, United

"The gun is not out of Irish politics."

Ian Paisley, English Politician

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

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

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"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

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"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."

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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."

"The gun is not out of Irish politics."

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

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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."

"If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further."

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."