"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."

Democracy, Freedom, Measure

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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

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"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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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview."

Karl Rove, American Politician

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"Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats."

Bart Stupak, American Politician

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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation."

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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

"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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"Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview."

"Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats."

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"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

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