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- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Atlee
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
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