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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 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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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Unity
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."
Humor
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."
Truth
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
Society
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