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“You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions”
Patrick Leahy
“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike”
Plato
“Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.”
Andre Malraux
“I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me”
Langston Hughes
“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility”
Norman Cousins
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
Simone Weil
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac”
Alex Carey
“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
Irving Kristol
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
Ralph Nader
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