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"We're not perfect, but we do have democracy."
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"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."
"You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box."
"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity."
"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell."
"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
"Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral."
"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."
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