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"In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism."
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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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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 ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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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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"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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"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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"When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem."
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"The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created."
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"Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised."
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"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."
Optimism
"In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism."
Democracy
"The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states."
Politics
"The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter."
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"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise."
Patriotism
"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
Patriotism
"Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less."
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