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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”

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Author:Alexander Fraser Tytler

“In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.”

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Author:Chris Patten

“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.”

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Author:Clement Attlee

“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.”

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Author:Edward Teller

“Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.”

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Author:Meg Greenfield

“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.”

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Author:Paul Wellstone

“Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.”

“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.”

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Book:The American cause

Source: The American cause

“You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

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Author:Larry Flynt

“Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.”

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Author:Daniel Barenboim

“The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.”

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Book:Equality: American literature

Source: Equality: American literature

“The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.”

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Author:Chen Shui-bian

“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

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Book:The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

Source: The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

“To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.”

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Author:Barbara Boxer

“If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It”

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Book:You Can't Say That: Memoirs

Source: You Can't Say That: Memoirs

“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.”

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Author:Alan Coren

“Of the people, by the people, for the people.”

Author:Sun Yat-sen

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.”

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Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

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