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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
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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 also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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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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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."
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"As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed."
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"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Philosophy
"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
Education
"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."
People
"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."
Ethics
"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"
Society
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
Religion
"War never leaves where it found a nation."
Society
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
Wisdom
"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"
Reflection
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
Politics
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