Category: Verbatim

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Buck Banks

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism.

— David Davis (1815-1886), U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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Buck Banks

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most impractical. It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap and demagogy. Yet democracy is the only form of social order admissable because it is the only one consistent with justice.

— Robert Briffault (1876-1948), British surgeon, anthropologist, novelist

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Buck Banks

The age-old barbarism, which for centuries lay bound and hidden under the severe discipline of a high culture, is again awakening that warlike healthy joy in one’s own strength, which despises the age of rationalistic thought and literature, that unbroken instinct of a strong race which wishes to live otherwise than under the pressure of books and bookish ideas.

— Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher

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Buck Banks

These solid people of capital, the press, the pulpit — where have they ever fought? They are accustomed to finding out by telegraph and telephone the results of battles which settle their fate.

— Leon Trotsky (1870-assassinated 1940), Soviet Russian leader, journalist