"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

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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."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

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

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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."

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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

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"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."

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"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."

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"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."

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"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."

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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

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"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

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