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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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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

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Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.

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

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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 the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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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 and violence can ill go together.

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Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

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There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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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 is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

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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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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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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

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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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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

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