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“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”
― Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
― Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
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“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to a kind of benumbed despair.”
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
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