"Demagogues always do well in economic downturns." — John Avlon

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• Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. — Aristotle
• It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists… — Henry Hazlitt
• A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for… — Ludwig von Mises
• Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an… — Alexander Hamilton
• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of… — Oscar Wilde
• The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy… — Erich Ludendorff
• Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong… — Joseph Pulitzer
• Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never… — Emma Goldman
• Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name,… — Jack Parsons
• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division,… — Paolo Bacigalupi
• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from… — Andrei Sakharov

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