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"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
"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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"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
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