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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

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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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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

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

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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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

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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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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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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

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