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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.    By James Madison    [fullquote]

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You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.    By Unknown CIA Operative    [fullquote]

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. . . In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. . .    By Edward C. Bernays    [fullquote]

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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.    By Martin Luther King Jr.    [fullquote]

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If your logic is strong enough to stand on its own right, there should be no need to attack the character of the opponent. To the undecided audience, attacking him personally is likely to grant him the appearance of a victim.    By Oberst Stuhlherr    [fullquote]

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Overt control, such as a dictatorship you can see, always has a finite life, because in the end there will be a challenge and rebellion against it. Covert control, however, control you cannot see, identify or target, can go on forever, because you don't rebel against something you don't know exists. A person who thinks he is free will not complain that he is not.    By Andrew Collins    [fullquote]

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The evils which are endured with patience as long as they are inevitable, seem intolerable as soon as a hope can be entertained of escaping them.    By Alexis De Tocqueville    [fullquote]

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'The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.    By William Pitt    [fullquote]

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It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!    By Oliver Cromwell    [fullquote]

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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.    By Edward R. Murrow    [fullquote]

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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.    By Edward R. Murrow    [fullquote]

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.    By Alexis De Tocqueville    [fullquote]