"The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."
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"The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it."
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"The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim."
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"The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy."
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"You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary."
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"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
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"It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts."
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"Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism"
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"Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh."
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"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
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"All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy"
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"You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded."
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"Freedom is participation in power."
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"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
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"Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric."
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"A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
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"In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before."
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"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose."
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"These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."
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"Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power."
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