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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
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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?"
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"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."
"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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