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“I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.”

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George Aiken was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Vermont. Born on August 20, 1892, and died on November 19, 1984, Aiken was known for his conservative political views and legislative achievements in agricultural reform. more

“Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.”

People Government Democracy Failing Fairs Definitions Details Wide Criteria Margins

Author:George Aiken

“A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.”

Stills Force Justice Battle Evidence Logic Weight Wit Trials Knives Spears Gleam Blazing Ordeals

Author:Lloyd Paul Stryker

“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”

Moving Proud Cynicism Opportunist Oppurtunity

Author:Jay Carr

“By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.”

Years Design Secretary Typography Typefaces

Author:Roger Black

“We are closest to people when we help them grow.”

People Giving Helping Grows Growth Closest

Author:Milton Mayeroff

“Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.”

Ends Individual Nations Peace Products

Author:Edward Howard Griggs

“There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.”

Should Firsts Differences Alive Cancer Settling Never Settle

Author:Matt Corby

“The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.”

Men Doe Friendship He Man Rewards True Friend True Friendship

Author:Aelred of Rievaulx

“The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.”

Firsts Energy Periods Discovery Instruments Court Medicine Cancer Usa Treatment Burned Physicians Threatening Laboratory Morris Energy Medicine

Author:Barry Lynes

“The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."”

Wells Shows Process Honest Cancer Bones Defined Hips Remarkable Rays Sane Physicians Spontaneous Rebuilding Remission

Author:Robert Willner

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