Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
--H. L. Mencken
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
--H. L. Mencken
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
--Don Marquis
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
--James Madison
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
--John F. Kennedy
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
--Immanuel Kant
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
--Lyndon B. Johnson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
--Thomas Jefferson
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
--Thomas H. Huxley
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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