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"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; & were it left to me to decide if we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them" |
Jefferson |
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"No man is an island" No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promonitory were. As well as if a man or of thine own. Or of thine friends were Each mans death diminishes me, for I am in mankind. Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" |
John Donne |
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"We do not say that a man who has no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business. We say he is a man who has no business here at all" |
Thucydides |
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"When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are" |
Thucydides |
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"Increased profits (e.g. tax breaks) are widely used by governments as inducements for the rich to work harder, wheras greater poverty (e.g. benefits cuts) is the accepted inducement for the poor to do likewise" |
Michael Harrington |
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"The unexamined life is not worth living" |
Socrates |
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"No one ever went broke understanding the intelligence & the taste of the great masses of the American public" |
Mencken |
