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Democracy Quotes
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
-Meg Greenfield
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
-Aristotle
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-Sir Winston Churchill
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
-Edmund Burke
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
-Benito Mussolini
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"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
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"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board."
-Grover Cleveland
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"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
-Clement Atlee
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"In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal."
-Peter Blake
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"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
-Art Spander
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"The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it."
-Don Rittner
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"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!"
-Allen Ginsberg
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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
-Charles Evans Hughes
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"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
-Alexander Woollcott
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"Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised."
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
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"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
-Laurence J. Peter
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"It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians."
-Pat Robertson
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"Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some."
-Wendy Kaminer
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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."
-Nigel Rees
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"In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."
-Mogens Jallberg
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"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
-Madeleine Albright
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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
-E. B. White
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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."
-Bill Maher
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"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."
-Mikhail Gorbachev
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