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“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.”

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Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.”

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Author:Larisa Alexandrovna

“There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.”

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Author:Robert McNamara

“Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.”

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Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present