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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (101)2/17/2003 2:53:58 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha  Read Replies (1) of 186
 
Democracy 102

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunther Grass

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

The Constitution, in a very significant sense, is not a mechanism for making decisions but preventing them.
Michael Gilson De Lomos

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Henry de Jouvenel

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Clark Hoover

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
James Madison

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John Dryden

Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon
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