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“Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.”

Might Democracy Limits Ideology Corporations Legislature

Book:The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

Source: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

“If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.”

Ifs Moments Fighting Democracy Sacrifice Nonviolence Legislature

Book:Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives

Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives

“We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.”

“After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.”

“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.”

Thinking Wells Country Government Lasts House Lost Democracy Election Eras Legislature Venezuela

Author:Marco Rubio