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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Integrity, Rights

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Ignazio Silone

  Religious, Freedom, Fear

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• I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

  George Soros

  Freedom, Home, America

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

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• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  Paul Wellstone

  Education, Democracies Have, Goal

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• The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Tyrants, Political

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• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, School, Past

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.365, NYU Press

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Freedom, Temptation

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• There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Office, Library, Earth

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have

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• The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Freedom, Trouble

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• Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

  Alberto Moravia

  Motivational, Freedom, Democracies Have

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• The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.154, Vintage

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• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

  James F. Cooper

  Mediocrity, Tendencies, All Things

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  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Country, Power

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

  Meg Greenfield

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Practice

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• Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Democracies Have, Race, Intelligence

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• Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Motivational, Freedom, Believe

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press

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• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Helen Suzman

  Inspirational, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, War, Thunder

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Principles, Form

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  James Bryant Conant

  Agreement, Individual Differences, Common

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• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Ladders, Speech

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