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

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."

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

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."

"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out."

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