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- The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
- Somerset Maugham
- Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
- Moritz Guedemann
- 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)
- Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- 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
- The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- In his private heart no man respects himself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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