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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
"Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature."
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"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."
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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