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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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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"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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"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."
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"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."
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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."
Life
"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."
Mistake
"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
Humor
"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."
Work
"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
Democracy
"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"
Nation
"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
Numbers
"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."
Humor
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