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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a 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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Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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

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

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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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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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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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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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

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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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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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Freedom is participation in 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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I believe that women will lead the democracy movement.

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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

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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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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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