"We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope."
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"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values."
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"Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell."
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"A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!"
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"In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell."
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"One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism."
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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
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"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
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"Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study."
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"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?"
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"Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous."
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"Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult."
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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
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"A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy."
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"The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
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"A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government."
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"A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments."
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"In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy."
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"Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy."
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"Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few."
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