...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.
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The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the read more
The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
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.
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have read more
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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 may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing read more
...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.
Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
