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The government is turning lives upside down by callously playing hard ball over Brexit and it needs to take its responsibilities far more seriously

— Caroline Lucas

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Extinction Rebellion are carrying a message we all need to hear. They won’t be silenced by a police crackdown, nor should they be in a free democratic society.

We will block what is nothing less than a coup.

How can the will of the people be undermined by a vote of the people?

At a moment when we need a leader with courage and integrity, we get a pompous clown.

We would be kidding ourselves if we put our trust in Brazil’s right-wing, pro-business president Jair Bolsonaro to protect it.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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