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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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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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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
Love
"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
Curiosity
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Creativity
"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
Life
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
Nothing
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
Argument
"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
Knowledge
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Time
"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
Time
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
Progress
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