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— John Quincy Adams"The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections."
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An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
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