Liars ought to have good memories.
Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (1689).
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Algernon Sidney
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James Fenimore Cooper
The peculiar office of a demagogue is to advance his own interests, by affecting a deep devotion to the interests of the people. . . .
He who would be a courtier under a king, is almost certain to be a demagogue in a democracy.
James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America (1838).
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Yves Guyot
The effect of a protective duty on any commodity is to raise the price, not only of the amount imported, but of the whole quantity sold in the country; it is a private tax placed upon consumers for the benefit of producers.
Yves Guyot (September 6, 1843 – February 22, 1928) was a French politician and economist.
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Yves Guyot:
“The effect of a protective duty on any commodity is to raise the price, not only of the amount imported, but of the whole quantity sold in the country; it is a private tax placed upon consumers for the benefit of producers.”
Yves Guyot (6 September 1843 – 22 February 1928) was a French politician and economist.
He was an uncompromising free-trader.