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21 Oct
QOTD - Garry Wills, 10/3/96

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 23:53:31 -0700
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Subject: QOTD - Garry Wills, 10/3/96

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Forwarded-by: qotd-request@ensu.ucalgary.ca (Quote of the day)

We must choose between a party that neglects the poor and one that savages
them, between a party that defers to the rich and one that deifies them,
between a party that abjectly apologizes for government and one that
demonizes it.  One party signs a Faustian contract with the devil.  The
other party offers the contract.  Better Faustus than Mephistopheles.

	-- historian Garry Wills on the choice offered in the 1996 U.S.
	   Presidential elections - between the Faustus of the Democratic
	   Party and the Mephistopheles of the Republican Party.
	   (October 3, 1996 issue of The New York Review of Books.)

© 1996 Peter Langston