"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
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"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us."
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"Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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"I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests."
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"The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing."
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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
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"Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force."
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"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"
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"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires."
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"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision."
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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"The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
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"Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy."
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"That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other."
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