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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." »James Madison
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." »G. K. Chesterton
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
and there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people." »Charles W. Tobey
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"The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence." »Philo Vance
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"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world." »Clare Booth Luce
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"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship." »George Frost Kennan
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"The Islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." »Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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""Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right."" »Tom Zegan
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"I believe and I say it is true democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer." »William Henry Harrison
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"The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media." »Eduard Sagalaev
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different." »Tony Bennet
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." »Wilson Mizner
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"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter
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