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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

~Ferdinand Mount

Topics: Argue Away Build Cast Centuries Combined Defenders Flexibility Generations Minute Our Over Parliamentary Quo Served Should Stability Status Status Quo System Taken Traditions Us Well Will

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Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

~Francis Scott Key

Topics: Country Defenders Deliverance Deserve Does Heart Hour Song Spoke Then

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

~George Orwell

Topics: Almost Any Call Claim Consequently Country Defenders Democracy Democratic Down Every Fear Felt Kind Meaning Might Praising Regime Stop Tied Universally Using Were Word

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