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- Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), A preface to "Paradise Lost"
- No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Weight of Glory
- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
- The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
- The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison (1773 - 1841), Speech, October 1, 1840
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895), Speech, April 1886
- The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
- Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
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