Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . .
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The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy the others have too high a price.
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Even God has been defended with nonsense.
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