"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."

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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."

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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

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"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

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