Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H.L. Mencken, 1956
What makes the Stones arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they werent rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us. – Jon Landau
It contributes greatly towards a mans moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
