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- The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
- Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
- An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.
- Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam
- Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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