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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
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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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"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China."
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"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."
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"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant."
Politics

"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."
Faith

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful."
Morality

"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
Psychology

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
Health

"It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care."
Society

"The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Man

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
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