"Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect."
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"The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can."
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"Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism."
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"[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day."
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"The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor."
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"Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman."
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"It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies."
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"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."
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"Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression."
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"History is fables agreed upon."
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"Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies."
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"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
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"Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences."
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"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
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"The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another."
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"Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right."
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"The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized."
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa."
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"It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong."
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