"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

Politics, Democracy, Choice, Power

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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

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"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

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