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• The best government is that which governs least.

  John L. O'Sullivan1813–1895Often credited to Thomas Paine

• Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin Franklin

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• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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