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"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece." - HST

 

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Here is my list:

  • “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.”  John Locke
  • “Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”  Dennis
  • “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." John Adams
  • “The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”  Rousseau
  • “No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.”  Rousseau
  • “The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”  Plato
  • “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”  Dennis
  • “The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.”  Kant
  • “The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”  John Locke
  • “Man is an animal which, if it lives among others of its kind, requires a master.”  Kant
  • “But then the master is himself an animal, and needs a master.”  Kant
  • “You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.”  Dennis
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