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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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."
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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."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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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."
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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."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"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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"A government of laws, and not of men."
Government
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Government
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
Mankind
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
Love
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
War
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
Imagination
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