"Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them."
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"Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy."
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"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"
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"No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself."
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"Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority."
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"You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state."
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"Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us."
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"We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise."
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"The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy."
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"The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today."
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"Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine."
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"The real safeguard of democracy is education."
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"We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war."
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"We must be the great arsenal of Democracy."
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"The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them."
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"Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice."
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"Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings."
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"Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish."
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