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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
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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."
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"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."
"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."
"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
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