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

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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

Democracy, Worship

"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

Democracy, Right, Power, Majority, Principle

"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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"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."

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

"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation."