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"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
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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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"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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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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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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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
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"Democracy fascinates me."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"Democracy is not about one party dominating."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
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"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
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"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
Faith


"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
Leadership


"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
Happiness


"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
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"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
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"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
Discipline
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