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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long," Time Enough for Love
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A representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.

Edmund Burke : British statesman
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Source: Quoted in the musical stage play 1776, Peter Stone & Sherman Edwards, 1964
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“You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr. 39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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