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“Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces”
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“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
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“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
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“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
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“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.”
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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar”
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“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right”
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“God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat”
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“The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it”
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