...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 ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in read more
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because read more
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
