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James Russell Lowell

"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

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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 probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."

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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."

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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

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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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"The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount."

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"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."

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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
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"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."
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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."
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"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
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"One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world."
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"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."
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