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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."

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

"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."

"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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