"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

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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."

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

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