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Richard J. Daley

"Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats."

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

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

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"After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first."

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"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
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"Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?"
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"Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party."
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"I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders."
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"We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone."
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"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
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"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
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"The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people."
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"The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened."
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