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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
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"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"
Nation

"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

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
Democracy

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."
Mistake

"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."
Life

"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

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
Numbers
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