Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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