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The last refuge

A politician will do anything to keep his job — even become a patriot.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 13, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories demagoguesTags William Randolph Hearst

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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