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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

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The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

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I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell you that if we just isolate ourselves from the Middle East and hope for the best, we will not address the conditions that had led young suiciders to get on airplanes to come and attack Amerika in the first place.

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Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

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The world must be made safe for democracy.

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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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