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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congres

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows. – Bernard Devoto

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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. – Bernard Devoto

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I believe if we introduced the Lords Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it. – Henry Wilson

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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. – General Robert E. Lee

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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. – J. William Fulbright

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