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"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
"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."
"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."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."
"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate."
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."
"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
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