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Former US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned years ago: "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
"The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson, from the "Tree of Liberty" letter to William Smith
"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?"
--Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown
"No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels."
--Samuel Johnson
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
--Bertrand Russell
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
--Oscar Wilde
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
--George Carlin
