Tweedledum Quotes
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoilt his nice new rattle.
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Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
john byrom— "Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini" in The London Journal (5 June 1725)
— Alternately reported as:Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny;Others aver that he to HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange all this difference should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
It is a truism, of course, that in “democratic” states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.
revilo p. oliver— "Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!"
Lewis Carroll— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 4.
It is a truism, of course, that in “democratic” states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.
— "Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
