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> There is no constructive end to releasing the [vote] totals.
>  --Bil

> (and why make folks feel bad? Unity is
> what we need:))


Very noble sentiments, which enjoy an esteemed historical company.
In the interest of a balanced debate, here are some other historical
opinions...

(Hey, don't take this too seriously.  :)


Agree:
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed.
  Joseph Stalin

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
  Adolf Hitler

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
  Adolf Hitler


Disagree:

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their
own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular
government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but
a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.
  James Madison

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
  Harry S. Truman

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the
dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.
  Corazon Aquino

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the
political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
  Mikhail Gorbachev

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy;
it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to
act in cases where the highest judgment is required.
  Thomas Paine

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
  Alan Dean Foster


Indifferent:
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they never use.
  Kierkegaard

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910)  , 1897

Art Spander:
  The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance
to do something stupid.

H. L. Mencken:
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both
commonly succeed, and are right.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a
winning candidate.
  Mark B. Cohen

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you.
Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
  Bernard Levin

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
  George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
  Londo Molari


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