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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Notes on Democracy, 1926
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Baccalaureate address, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 9, 1907
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 6, 1788
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress, August 12, 1974
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Address at Jacksonville University, December 16, 1971
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The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Circles, Essays: First Series, 1903
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
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It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
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