"Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy."
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"If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble."
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"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
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"You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime."
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"We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed."
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"During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy."
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"The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy."
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"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
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"Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires."
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"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work."
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"Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being."
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"There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis."
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"Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins."
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"In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite."
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"What good shall I do this day?"
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"If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works."
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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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