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Quote by Louis Brandeis
The most important political office is that of the private citizen

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. – Louis Brandeis

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Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis Brandeis

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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

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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. – Michael Novak

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