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"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"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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"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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"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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"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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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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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
Creativity
"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."
Democracy
"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
Imagination
"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
Power
"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
"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
Work
"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."
Time
"I own and operate a ferocious ego."
Ego
"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
"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone."
Experience
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