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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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."
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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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"Democracy fascinates me."
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"Democracy is not about one party dominating."
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"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed."
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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
Time
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
Lie
"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
Community
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
People
"To innovate is not to reform."
Society
"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
Power
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
Want
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Happiness
"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
Politics
"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
Man
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