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• Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.
  No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise....
• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury....
• Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
  -- Winston Churchill...
• Test the government, not the people; that's what democracy is all about. -- Abby Hoffma
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  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....
• Always do the hard part first. If the hard part is impossible, why waste time on the easy part?
  Once the hard part is done, you're home free. Always do the easy part first....
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....