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"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
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"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
Life

"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
Faith

"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
God

"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
Consequence

"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
Love

"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."
Truth

"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
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