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John W. Dean
“Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for any democracy.”
John W. Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience

James Madison
“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
James Madison

Barbara Bush
“War is not nice.”
Barbara Bush
tags: dumb, war

Winston S. Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston S. Churchill

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”
Gordy Slack, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA

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