"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."

Aleksandr Lebed, Russian Politician

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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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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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

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

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Democracy, Worship

"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."

Shimon Peres, Israeli Statesman

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

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"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

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"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."

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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

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

"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."

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

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

"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."

"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"

"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."

"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully."

"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."

"In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law."

"Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry."

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."