"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."

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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."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Democracy, Wealth, Equality, Justice

"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Democracy, Giving, Tradition, Walking

"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."

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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."

Religion,

"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."

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"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."

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"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."

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"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."

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"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."

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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."

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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."

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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."

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