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"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
"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 government to the utmost."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."
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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."
"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."
"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
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