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"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
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"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."
"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."
"The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
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