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Bill Downs:

The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

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Henry S. Haskins:

Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.

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Edward Gibbon:

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

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Charles Fourier:

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

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Moliere:

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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Carl Eckart:

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

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Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Afterthought:

Methinks we are seeing evidence of the accuracy of this statement every day.

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Oskar Schindler:

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

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Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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David Ferguson:

I don’t ever want to hear that we don’t have food for children ever ever ever again. . . . Bombs cost millions of dollars and you can only use the once and suddenly the pockets are bottomless when it’s time the shoot and kill people and drop bombs on them, but when it’s time to feed children or pay teachers, we can’t do that.

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Horatio Nelson:

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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Goparaju Ramachandra Rao:

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

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Frank Herbert:

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

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Steven Wright:

Everywhere is walking distance if you’ve got the time.

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Will Rogers:

When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, “I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”

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Nefertiti:

You can’t change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it’s an oasis won’t make it so.

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Jeff Flake:

A major difference between politicians and the free press is that the press usually corrects itself when it gets something wrong. Politicians don’t.

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Ursula Howells, in the voice of Lady Isabel Aubrey:

All men are credulous animals. We must all believe in something.

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Winston Churchill:

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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