I’m a great aficionado of
I’m a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
– David Blunkett
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- Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. – Steve King
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne
- “I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come.” – Salman Rushdie
- History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David C. McCullough
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. – Carl Jung
- The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. – Henry James Sumner Maine
- The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. – Jim Walsh
- You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn’t going to give those up. – Paul Keating
- It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive! – Christopher McCandless