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• Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Be and not seem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
  In democracy, what you get generally is bad government by a bully, tempered by the pen of several newspaper editors....
• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Every hero becomes a bore at last. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Representative Me
• It is a luxury to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• There is no knowledge that is not power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• All mankind love a lover. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso