"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
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"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
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"The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought."
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"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media."
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"The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy."
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"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
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"Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy."
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"The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals"
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"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities."
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"A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership."
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"Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear."
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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
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"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."
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"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."
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"Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy."
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"One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption."
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"An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy."
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"Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state..."
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"LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words."
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