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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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

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

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."

Jim Bolger, New Zealander Statesman

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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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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"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

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"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."

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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

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"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."

Attention

"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

Ability

"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."

Nation

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience."

People

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world."

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"You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence."

Intelligence

"But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right."

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"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."

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