“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” Justice William O. Douglas, (1882-1965) (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Source: Public Utilities Commission v Pollack, 1952
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“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” Justice Felix Frankfurter, (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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“Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down … Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to…

“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end…

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars: the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic.
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“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.” Walter H….

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900) Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891.
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“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him.  It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.” Joseph Sobran, (1946-2010) Columnist. Source: Universal Press Syndicate
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“Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.” Jan C. Smuts, (1870-1950) South African and British Commonwealth politician and military leader, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939-48), helped…

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.” James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851) American Novelist. Source: The American Democrat, XIV, 1838
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“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist.
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“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”…