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We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.

— Kin Hubbard The Best of Kin Hubbard (1984)

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Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

Short Furrows (1911)

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

Short Furrows (1913)

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.

Back Country Folks (1914)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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