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“The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.”

Evil Democracy Crime Doctrine Cures

Author:H. L. Mencken

“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”

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Author:Joseph Pulitzer

“A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.”

Democracy Crime Birth India Mark Election Criminals

Author:Narendra Modi

“Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”

War Country Democracy Crime Committed Preventive War

Book:It is what I think: 1947-1948

Source: It is what I think: 1947-1948

“[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.”

I Can House Democracy Failing Crime Materials Vote Bills Budgets Fraud Senate Representatives Funding Obamacare House Of Representatives

Author:Michele Bachmann

“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson