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"Dick Nixon is the victim of the worst press that ever hit a politician in this country. What they did to him in the Helen Gahagan Douglas race was disgusting."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting…"

"I think that puts a spotlight on the need to have policy proposals to address concerns that people have, including and especially the voters who have been supporting Donald Trump. I think the solution…"

"The most effective censorship is not, in fact, legal; in a democracy—as Tocqueville pointed out in Democracy in America—it is public opinion."

"AmericanPresident.org"

"Every intrusion of the spirit that says, "I'm as good as you" into our personal and spiritual life is to be resisted just as jealously as every intrusion of bureaucracy or privilege into our politics.…"

"By what method or methods can the able men from every rank of life be gathered, as diamond-grains from the general mass of sand: the able men, not the sham-able;—and set to do the work of governing, c…"

"The BMAC team also put forth the demand that they be recognized as “independent scholars” entitled to sit in judgment on the controversy between their BMAC employers and their VHP opponents. The gover…"

"“Mr. Vice President. No numbers, no bubbles."

"If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, … all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the ‘fact’, must be return to a state of flux, or b…"

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain—that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.  In either case …"

"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."

"La Republica Critique and Book Review"

"Final Statements of Louis Riel at his trial in Regina"

"I do not mean to discuss the question how far slavery and farming are incompatible. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former."

"Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride. “Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off."

"For a man petticoat government is the limit of insolence."

"I came out of the room full of admiration for Modi. Somebody from the media asked me later, 'Why did you meet a chief minister from Gujarat?' I asked him, 'Why not? Kerala has had five chief ministers…"

"The Haudenosaunee people, the People of the Longhouse, the ones we call the created a democracy. ...hey had the equivalent of state legislatures. ...nly men ran for office. Only women voted, and women…"