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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

— Jimmy Carter

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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

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I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.

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The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.

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We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

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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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