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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2469)1/26/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
I believe it will be absolutely necessary that you should prevail on our future masters to learn their letters.

Speech in the House of Commons (on passing of the Reform Bill), 15 July 1867. Popularized as 'We must educate our [new] masters'
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke



To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2469)1/26/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
If liberty and equality, as is thought by many, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Politics, Bk IV Aristotle

[why I voted for Aristotle against Plato as delegate to the constitutional convention]



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