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"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries."
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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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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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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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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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"But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges."
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"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
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"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school."
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"Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries."
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"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."
Government
"One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker."
Cause
"Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems."
Attitude
"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier."
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"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries."
Democracy
"I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments."
War
"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."
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"The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other."
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