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"I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."
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"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."
"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."
"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
"Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians ofmodern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics."
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."
"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."
"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."
"Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, those who had anything united in common terror."
"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."
"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."
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