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- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Attlee
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- Very much of the literature of economics strikes me as rationalization after the event.
- John H. Williams
- We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen
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