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• A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
  -- Henry David Thoreau,_On the Duty of Civil Disobedience_...
• All Scottish food is based on a dare.
• Love of money is the root of all politics.
• Politics is the most promising of all careers.
• All decisions are based on insufficient evidence. -- Nickel Hunsenmei
• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbo
  and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye....
• The most destructive criticism is indifference.
• You can fool all of the people all of the time, but why bother when all you need is a simple majority?
• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.