"Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort."
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"Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury."
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"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
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"The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles."
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"Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness."
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"What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians."
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"A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'."
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"In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about."
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"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed."
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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."
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"But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy."
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"Democracy: a festival of mediocrity."
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"Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman."
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"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."
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"In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist."
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"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."
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"A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
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"Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control."
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"The best defense against democracy is to distract people."
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