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Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu:

Democracy has two excesses to be wary of: the spirit of inequality, which leads it to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads it to despotism.

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Eugene McCarthy:

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

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Alan Ladd:

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

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William Sloane Coffin:

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

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R. Austin Freeman:

The fear of simplicity is the beginning of litigation.

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George Bernard Shaw:

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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Jonathan Swift:

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

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John D. Rockefeller:

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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Tom Lehrer:

I feel that if a person can’t communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.

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Lena Horne:

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

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Logan Pearsall Smith:

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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Reinhold Niebuhr:

Democracy means not ‘I am as good as you are,’ but ‘You are as good as I am.’

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Mary Tyler Moore, as Peggy Regan, Hawaiian Eye, Season Three, Episode 11:

Sometimes lies sound more reasonable than the truth. Lies are planned . . . .

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Dascia Mitchell:

Privilege is a hell of a drug.

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John Wesley:

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

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Maimonides:

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books,* for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

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*Or on the internet.

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Ed Asner, as Lou Grant (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season One, Episode 22):

I don’t trust warm and friendly people.

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Peter Yarrow:

We’re part of a long train ride.

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John Quincey Adams:

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

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