"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."
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"Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely."
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"Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy."
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"Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint."
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"We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed."
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"Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders."
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"It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests."
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"What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten."
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"It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests."
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"It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present."
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"When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work."
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"Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world"
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"We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored."
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"Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?"
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"Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy."
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"The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy."
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"Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets."
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