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

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

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The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

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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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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

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

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

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

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

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Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

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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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The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

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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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In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

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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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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

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