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Democracy doesn’t belong to Government or to prime ministers. It belongs to the people.

— Norman Kirk

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There are four things that matter to people: they have to have somewhere to live, they have to have food to eat, they have to have clothing to wear, and they have to have something to hope for.

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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.

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