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Let them spend the next fifty years poring over the passenger list, trying to figure out which one of them is the great demagogue of the Age of Locke. (source)demagogue = someone who appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking.† (source)demagogues = people who appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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"They met, they talked, they parted," wrote one of Howe's staff, "and now nothing remains but to fight it out against a set of the most determined hypocrites and demagogues, compiled of the refuse of the colonies, that ever were permitted by Providence to be the scourge of a country."† (source)
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Atticus Finch was right when he said the only good the University did Henry was let him make friends with Alabama's future politicians, demagogues, and statesmen.† (source)
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In college—where, outside of "creative writing," my only serious academic concern had been the study of the history of the American South—I had hacked out a lengthy term paper on that freakish and aborted political movement known as Populism, paying special attention to the Southern demagogues and rabble-rousers who had so often exemplified its seamier side.† (source)
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The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied upon......† (source)demagoguery = appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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That would make you a demagogue, a windbag.† (source)demagogue = someone who appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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The Royalists of to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit.† (source)demagogues = people who appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time.† (source)demagoguery = appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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(5) Where today a political regime establishes an official cultural policy, it is for the sake of demagogy† (source)demagogy = appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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Conrack discovered that afternoon, much to his dismay, that he had a bit of demagogue in him.† (source)demagogue = someone who appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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Some of this opposition is, of course, mere envy; the disappointment of displaced demagogues and the spite of narrow minds.† (source)demagogues = people who appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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To think that someone like you, who uses such grand words for such shameless purposes, can accuse me of demagoguery.† (source)demagoguery = appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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The same holds true, of course, for capitalist countries and makes all talk of art for the masses there nothing but demagogy.† (source)demagogy = appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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They should guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, while they pursue what they can only learn from TIME and EXPERIENCE.† (source)demagogue = someone who appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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But the demagogues of Europe have made strange discoveries.† (source)demagogues = people who appeal to the passions and prejudices of others
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