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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
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“Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness”
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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence”
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“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers”
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“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics”
John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)
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“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another p”
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“There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God”
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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”
James Bovard quotes
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“Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos”
Polybius quotes (Greek statesman and historian, 200-118bc)
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