It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.
quote by William Allen White
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
quote by Ted Danson
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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So
The other day on the fifth Anniversary of our invasion of Iraq our Vice President Chaney said so when he was told that 75% of us the American people believe that the war in Iraq is a mistake. So what if we never found weapons of mass destruction. So what if we never know whether Bin Laden is dead or alive. So what if Hussein is dead but nothing really has change. So what if we are now looked at as the terrorist in this so called war on terrorism. So what if we have sent more American to their death then the 9/11 attacks ever did. None of this matter at all says our Vice President. We must stay in Iraq until we win. But there is nothing to win. So!
Just
Is it just...
Another form of tyranny
trying to enforce the dream of peace
upon humanity.
Is 'he'* just another Dictator...
attempting to brainwash
the masses with his socialistic
'share the wealth' mentality?
Maybe I am... Just
another old hippie chick,
my sign held high.
But...
I still feel the need to protest
for there are those who see
Liberalism as a disease
to be eradicated.
No vaccination for me,
I prefer to live with the
love your brother 'crazies'.
* - American President (2010) Barack Obama
poem by Angela Michel
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Life’s button expresses
Face lift‘s level of up’s and
Downs of your soft skin
haiku by Ken e Hall
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American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
George W. Bush in speech (19 November 1999)
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We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
quote by Tom Tancredo
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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
quote by Walter Bagehot
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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
quote by Charles Schumer
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
quote by Paul Tillich
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Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
quote by James F. Cooper
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