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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"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."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
"Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you."
"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."
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