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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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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.”

“That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.”

Thinking Mind Kind Values Attitude Accepting Democracy Authority Approach Questioning Skeptical Identical Democracies Have Consonants

Book:Conversations with Carl Sagan

Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan

“New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that Canada! Where's your nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Steven Harper, and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!”

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.”

Political Culture Religious Struggle Democracy Economic Fronts Aspect International Educational Artistic Democracies Have

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.”

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Author:Jeff Cooper

“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”

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Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy

“Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.”

Effort Democracy Wall Backwards Democracies Have

Author:John McCain

“I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Democracy India Commodity Neglected Democracies Have

Author:Amartya Sen

“So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.”

Kind Made Facts Political Certain Democracy Identity Built Violent Democracies Have Hardened Antagonism

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”

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Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.”

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Author:Adrian Grenier

“We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.”

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Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.”

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Author:Neil Young

“Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.”

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Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.”

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Author:Jack Kemp

“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.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.”

“What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that.”

“In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.”

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Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

Source: James Madison's

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

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Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

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