“To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.”
Quote by Oswald Spengler
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler was a German philosopher and historian, born on May 29, 1880, and died on May 8, 1936. He is best known for his work 'The Decline of the West', which proposed a theory of cultural cycles, suggesting that civilizations and cultures follow a cycle of growth, maturity, and decline. more
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