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“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
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“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
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“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
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“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
― Minority Report
― Minority Report
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