"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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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."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

Nigel Rees, British Author

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"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."

Government

"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."

Government

"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."

Life

"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."

Society

"I own and operate a ferocious ego."

Ego

"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."

Cause

"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."

Imagination

"When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest."

Home

"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."

Dream

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

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