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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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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."
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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."
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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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"The problem of finding a collection of "wise men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation
"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
Reading
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
Reading
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
Power
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."
People
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Change
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
Fact
"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
God
"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."
Money
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."
Cultural
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