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    What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.

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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

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The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences read more

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The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.

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