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"In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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