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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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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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As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

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

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

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

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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

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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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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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Freedom is participation in power.

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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

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The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

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Democracy is hard work.

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