"I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong."
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular."
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"I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either."
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"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
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"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."
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"On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had."
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"It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away."
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"Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never."
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"Education is a human right with immense power to transform"
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"Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them."
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"There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest."
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"I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad."
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"Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth"
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"Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart."
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"American democracy has been hacked."
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"Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him."
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"What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that."
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"In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history."
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"And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax."
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"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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