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— John Quincy Adams"Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic."
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
— Walter Ulbricht
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People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
— Friedrich Engels
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