"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."

Government, People, Democracy, Word

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"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."

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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician

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"All government, of course, is against liberty."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

Geoff Davis, American Politician

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

Max Lerner, American Journalist

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"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."

Cal Thomas, American Journalist

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"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."

Peter Camejo, American Businessman

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"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

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"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."

James Madison, American President

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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."

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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."

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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

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"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority."

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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."

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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

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"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances."

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"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."

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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."

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"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."

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