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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
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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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"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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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."
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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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"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
Leadership
"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
Wisdom
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Freedom
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
Society
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Freedom
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