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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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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
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"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
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"Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for."
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"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!"
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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
Government
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
Design
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
People
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
War
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Society
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
Knowledge
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"Genius is sorrow's child."
Genius
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
Exercise
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
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