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Fiona Shaw

"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

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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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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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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 too good to share with just anybody."

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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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