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Quote by Bertrand Russell
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of gr

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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