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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."
"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
"In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks."
"We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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