"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."

-- Robert Bourassa

#Democratic Quotes

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”
“Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.”
“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.
“Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.
“I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.”
“While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.90, B&H Publishing Group
“Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.”
“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”

Source : Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Elizabeth Draper, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904). “Life of Lawrence Sterne by Percy Fitzgerald”

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