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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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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Happiness

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
Government

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
Age

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
Want

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Man

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
Food

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
Man

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
Man

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."
Love

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
God
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