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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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Originally Posted by LS Jaun
The man was almost claravoyant
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Originally Posted by ChrisC
One of the most witty and intelligent statesmen who ever lived.
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Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948
A great man
He most certainly was witty, intelligent and a great man, very likely claravoyant as well, assuming there was a pretty-looking Clara within sight - but that quote has never been traced to him. In fact, it hasn't been found anywhere before the 1980s or so.
He most certainly was witty, intelligent and a great man, very likely claravoyant as well, assuming there was a pretty-looking Clara within sight - but that quote has never been traced to him. In fact, it hasn't been found anywhere before the 1980s or so.
I thought you lefties believed that a politician's love life wasn't relevant to his or her job performance? At least that was the case prior to four years ago. What happened?
I thought you lefties believed that a politician's love life wasn't relevant to his or her job performance? At least that was the case prior to four years ago. What happened?
Democracy was invented in Athens around 500 BC iirc.
Democracy wasn't "invented"; a few attempts at true pluralism arose in ancient Greece and Rome, but these eventually succumbed to the pressures of the times. The most successful attempts to establish systems of self-determination under the rule of law arose in the Eighteenth Century, as a product of what has come to be called the Enlightenment.
And it is not by accident that the most prominent and successful democratic nation-states also feature the most open economies. The accumulation of capital, and its regulation by the economic laws of supply and demand rather than the dictates of kings, nobles and popes (and more recently, by the blood-lust of tyrants in the pursuit of unchecked power), is the central feature of a truly democratic nation.
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"The Number of purely white People in the World is proportionately very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red?" - Benjamin Franklin
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