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• When democracy granted democratic methods to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system.
  However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only to gain power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in times of our opposition....
• Laws are made for us; we are not made for the laws.
• It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
  -- Robert Maynard Hutchi...
• We love your adherence to democratic principles.
  -- Vice President George Bush, to Ferdinand Marco...
• We have read your manuscript with boundless delight.
  If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard....
• We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme.
  It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today....
• We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective
  must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented....
• We invented a new protocol and called it Kermit, after Kermit the Frog, star of "The Muppet Show.
  [3] [3] Why? Mostly because there was a Muppets calendar on the wall when we were trying to think of a name, and Kermit is a pleasant, unassuming sort of character....
• We advocate the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
  We urge the enactment of such measures by the several states as will actually promote temperance, effectively prevent the return of the saloon and bring the liquor traffic into the open under complete supervision and control by the states....