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He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Writing of John Tyler, Thomas Hart Benton, chapter 11, 1897
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980), Dissenting, Osborn V. Unites States
I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.: Petronius Arbiter
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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