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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
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