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Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.

— Warren G. Harding

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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

"It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the Republic."

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Nicholas Murray Butler (1939)

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

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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.

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