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