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2008 October 31
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"Democracy is a process
by which the people are free to choose
the man who will get the blame." |
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." |
"Democracy is the worst form of government
except for all those others that have been tried." |
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2008 October 30
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes
election by the incompetent many
for appointment by the corrupt few." |
"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority,
practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two
bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them
slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of
things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave." |
"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left." |
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2008 October 29
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"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many.
The first are the rich and the well-born;
the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing,
they seldom judge or determine right.
Give therefore to the first class
a distinct, permanent share in the Government ...
Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy." |
"Democracy, n.:
- A government of the masses.
- Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of
direct expression.
- Results in mobocracy.
- Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
- Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice,
and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
- Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos]." |
"People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing." |
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2008 October 28
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part
in affairs which properly concern them." |
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." |
"When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed,
democracy will inevitably destroy itself." |
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2008 October 27
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people
know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." |
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." |
"Freedom for supporters of the government only,
for members of one party only --
no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all.
Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently." |
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