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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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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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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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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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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt."
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"The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency."
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