"The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel."
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"Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy."
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"Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust."
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"The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat."
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"In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions."
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"Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation."
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"Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average."
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"The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy."
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"In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village."
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"American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other."
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"I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works."
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"You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going."
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"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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"When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy."
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"There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery."
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"Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter"
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"A free press is one of the pillars of democracy."
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"This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows."
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"Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq."
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"The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England."
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