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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are
right.
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The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and
keep them honest. No one else can.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself
survives.
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for
the recognition of differences.
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The purpose of democracy -- supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal,
ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance -- is, through many
transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures,
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Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have
a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active
and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men.
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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only
of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between
, and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life....
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The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as
the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic
of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal
critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies
as against despots. What is it? Distrust.
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Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty
ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House
will be adorned by a downright moron.
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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