"The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence."
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"The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern."
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"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!"
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"I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy."
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"Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark."
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"If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter."
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"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy"
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"The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market."
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"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."
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"Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy."
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"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."
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"Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by."
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"America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections."
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"The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society."
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"Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society."
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"We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong."
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"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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