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The best way
of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an
independent sovereign state.
-- Kwame Nkrumah
Leader of Ghana's fight for
Independence
Everything
that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of
the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to
part.
-- Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American
Political Theorist, Writer
In a democracy
everybody has a right to be represented, including the
jerks.
-- Chris Patten
1944-, British Statesman,
Governor of Hong Kong
Let the people
think they govern and they will be governed.
-- William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious
Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
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Democracy is a
process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter
These, then,
will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in
all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored
commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of
equality, whether they be really equal or not.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
Democracy is a
charming form of government, full of variety and disorder,
and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal
alike.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
Freedom
without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is
democracy.
-- Earl Riney
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