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"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
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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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"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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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
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"Democracy fascinates me."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"Democracy is not about one party dominating."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
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"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
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"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
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"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
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"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
Being
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
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"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
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"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
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