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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards
kicked me out.
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable
institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
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Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive
values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is
afraid of its people.
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and
murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
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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.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the
growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its
sorry achievements.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no
people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year
earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
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Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the
fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish,
with the general welfare.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about
it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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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 the government to the utmost.
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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