"Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility."
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"It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the U.S. was always imperialistic. We went after the Philippines, and we did the same in Cuba, in Hawaii. We controlled South America. Woodrow Wilson was not what he was supposed to be. He was very much a white man first. "The world must be made safe for democracy." It really accelerates after World War II."
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"The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy."
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"Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused."
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"To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
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"True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent."
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"Democracy and violence can ill go together."
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within."
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"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest."
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"The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind."
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"A born democrat is a born disciplinarian."
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"Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy."
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"Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion."
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"If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase."
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"A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs."
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"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy."
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"The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else."
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"Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?"
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"The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion."
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"No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it."
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