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• Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has ceased to exist.... Tyrants have come and have had their day and then have passed while religion has survived them all.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Fall, Tyrants, Together

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• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  Tatyana Ali

  America, Democracy, Slavery

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• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Historical, Democracy

  "Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

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• Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

  Randal Marlin

  Democracy, Action, Pretext

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.45, Broadview Press

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Military, People, Democracy

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• It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Law, Giving

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.175, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

  Tony Kushner

  Government, Talking, Democracy

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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• Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

  Paul Johnson

  Enemy, Democracy, Terrorist

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• American democracy has been hacked.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Hacked, Has Beens

  Al Gore (2017). “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis”, p.182, Rodale

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