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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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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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"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."
"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."
"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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