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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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."
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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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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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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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"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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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"A government of laws, and not of men."
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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Democracy

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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