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"A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government."

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."

"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
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