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Mario Vargas Llosa

"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."

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"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."

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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."

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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

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"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."

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"Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China."

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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

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"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."

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"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."

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"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."

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