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"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
"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."
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"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
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