"In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks."

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Chris Patten

#Freedom Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Jerk Quotes

“I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.”
“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”
“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”
“I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.”
“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.”
“The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.”
“Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.”

Source : Quoted by Z. Chafee Jr. in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955.
“I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.”

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