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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
"Of the people, by the people, for the people."
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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"The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
"That government is best which governs least."
"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
"In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist."
"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us."
"Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
