"All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes."
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"Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule."
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"The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man."
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"The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it."
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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic"
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"Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief."
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"Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."
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"There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves."
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"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
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"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption."
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"Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs"
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"Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world."
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"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."
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"People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing."
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"Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves."
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"Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men."
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"But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
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"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up"
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"All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be."
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"The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here."
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