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Joseph Sobran Quotes: Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
         

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.


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The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.



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The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.





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