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"If liberty and
equality, as is
thought by some, are
chiefly to be found
in democracy, they
will be best
attained when all
persons alike share
in government to the
utmost."
[ARISTOTLE] |
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"The class distinctions
proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or
money, still
less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of
age."
[WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN] |
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"So long as we have
enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll
be called a democracy."
[ROGER NASH BALDWIN] |
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"Anything that keeps a
politician humble is healthy for democracy."
[IRISH BLESSINGS] |
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"We can have democracy in
this country, or we can have
great wealth concentrated in the hands of a
few, but we can't have both."
[LOUIS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS]
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"The
experience of
democracy is like the experience of
life itself-always
changing,
infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable
for having been tested by
adversity."
[JAMES EARL JIMMY CARTER]
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"While democracy
must have its
organizations and
controls, its vital
breath is individual
liberty."
[CHARLES EVANS
HUGHES] |
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"The death of democracy
is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
[ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS] |
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"Information is the
currency of democracy."
[THOMAS JEFFERSON]
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"Man's capacity for
justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice
makes democracy necessary."
[REINHOLD NIEBUHR]
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