It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell
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