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"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."

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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

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"I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me."

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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity."

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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

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"The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit."

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"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

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"One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power."

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"Information is the currency of democracy."

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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy"

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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."

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"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."

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"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."

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"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."

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"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."

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"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."

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"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."

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"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win."

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"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

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"If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people."

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"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."

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"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."

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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

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"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America"

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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury."

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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock."

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"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."

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"The world must be made safe for democracy."

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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent."

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"In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes."

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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

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"The love of democracy is that of equality."

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"Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy."

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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."

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"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."

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"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."

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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

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"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"

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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

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