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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Related topics: Government Political
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
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The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing
to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Memorial Day remains one of America's
most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who
died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings
The experience of democracy is like
the experience of life itself -
always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent
and all the more valuable
for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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