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"The government is not a vessel for the personal ambition of the politicians. It is a means for the people to achieve their desire to be free."
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
"In a democracy, the majority should not be allowed to tyrannize the minority."
"Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march."
"The only way to create a more effective government is for the citizens to participate in it."
"I think we ought to take the profit out of politics."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
"The true test of a democracy is how it treats its most vulnerable members."
"We do not believe in the dignity of the individual if the individual is not responsible for his own actions. The free man is a responsible man."
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
"The essence of a democracy is the right to dissent."
"Democracy means that anyone can make a mistake."
"A democracy is a place where numerous ways of thinking are allowed to co-exist and the result is better than what the individual thoughts could achieve alone."
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
"We have to democratize the way we govern ourselves."
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation afraid of its people."
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"Democracy is the power of equal voices. Every individual must have an equal say in the affairs of their nation."
"Democracy cannot long endure if those who are supposed to represent us do not respond to their constituents."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
"Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is primarily a pattern of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience."
"Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being."
"Democracy is born in anarchy, and dies in dictatorship."
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
"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."
"Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not really a finally achieved condition."
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
"I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong."
"In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility."
"Democracy is not the law of the jungle where the biggest and strongest survive but that the smallest is equally important."
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
"The only safeguard against an inferior man is to bring him out in the open where others can judge him."
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
"Democracy is a constant process of becoming, rather than a fixed state."
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
"If ever democracy should be overthrown, it will be by the newspapers."
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority."
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal absolutely."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"Of all the known forms of government, democracy is the most difficult."
"I am a true friend to genuine democracy."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into public, secular language that all citizens can understand."
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
"Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement."
"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious if they are not competitive, free, and fair."
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
"In a democracy, the people choose their leader. Then they get to blame him when things go wrong."
"The weakness of democracy is that it places too much power in the hands of ignorant people."
"Democracy is not a spectator sport."
"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground."
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