Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. - H. G. Wells

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North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

H. G. Wells

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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Michel de Montaigne

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection. . . that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

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