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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. |
| in Ignorance Quotes by William Beveridge |
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Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.- Charles Edison
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
