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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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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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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
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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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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road
"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
Fact
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
Ambition
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
Time
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
Time
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Humor
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
Books
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
People
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