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- Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
- William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community.
- Edward Thorndike
- Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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