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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the read more
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most read more
It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most vitally from democracy. In a despotism there is no organized opposition which can take over the power when the Administration in office has failed. All the eggs are in one basket. Everything is staked on one coterie of men. When the going is good, they move more quickly and efficiently than democracies, where the opposition has to be persuaded and conciliated. But when they lose, there are no reserves. There are no substitutes on the bench ready to go out on the field and carry the ball. That is why democracies with the habit of party government have outlived all other forms of government in the modern world. They have, as it were, at least two governments always at hand, and when one fails they have the other. They have diversified the risks of mortality, corruption, and stupidity which pervade all human affairs. They have remembered that the most beautifully impressive machine cannot run for very long unless there is available a complete supply of spare parts.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from read more
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and
undernourishment.
No one has a right to happiness.
No one has a right to happiness.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song".
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song".
