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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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"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."
"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."
"The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"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."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
"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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