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Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

—Amit Kalantri

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When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

—Trevor D.

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Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

—Edward Snowden

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Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

—H.L. Mencken

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Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

—Paul Bamikole

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It’s an election year. We would prefer that voters didn’t use common sense.

—Aaron Sorkin

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India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of...

—Meghnad Desai

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Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

—Timothy Wu

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There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy – and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.

—Shirin Neshat

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Information is the currency of democracy.

—Thomas Jefferson

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The story of the American Civil War is essentially one of human beings––Northerners, Southerners, Blacks, Whites, men, women–– holding themselves accountable for the future of a nation.

—Aberjhani

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Wouldn’t it be more of a free country,” persisted Francie “if we could ride in them free?” “No.” “Why?” “Because that would be Socialism,” concluded Johnny triumphantly, “and we don’t want that over here.” “Why?”...

—Betty Smith

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Turkey shares Europe’s fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

—Ali Babacan

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Any government’s condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what’s happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance...

—Arundhati Roy

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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

—Benigno Aquino III

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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about...

—Abdallah II of Jordan

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Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!

—David Baldacci

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Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity—he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched...

—He

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I’m an extreme libertarian, but I realize we’re in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there’s no reason to argue about it.

—Eugene Fama

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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

—Gary Ackerman

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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

—Jawaharlal Nehru

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This is democracy, definitely,

—Hoshyar Zebari

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China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

—Dalai Lama

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There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a...

—G.K. Chesterton

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

—Gustave Flaubert

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

—Martin Luther

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for...

—Margaret Thatcher

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Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

—Matthew Flinders

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So Iasked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ hesaid. ‘Respect for other religions lies at the heart of Islam. And the principle of democracy...

—Kristiane Backer

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Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system...

—Myles Horton

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For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of...

—John F. Kennedy

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From this day onward whatever circumstances may jam my way I’ll break through it unscathed for in the end who will but suffer but me, so much so that I will reach for the unreachable,...

—Liliosa Hilao

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May the efforts at ensuring sustainable peace and meaningful democracy in the interests of the nation and the people bear fruit during the New Year.

—King Gyanendra

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I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

—Ricardo Alarcon

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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

—Richard Armitage

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civic demobilization,” conditioning an electorate to being aroused for a brief spell, controlling its attention span, and then encouraging distraction or apathy. The intense pace of work and the extended working day, combined with job...

—Sheldon S.

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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

—Ronald Reagan

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We know of the nature of the regime in Syria. We constantly try to inspire them toward more democracy, but playing with Syria would be dangerous and could prove to be a worse situation than...

—Recep Erdogan

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When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

—Thomas L.

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In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted equality of condition. The Crusades and the English wars decimated the...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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There’s got to be more to life than just living,” Foyle said to the robot.”Then find it for yourself, sir. Don’t ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.””Why can’t we all move...

—Alfred Bester

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Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed...

—Anna Porter

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Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.

—Bryant McGill

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Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom...

—Benjamin Harrison

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

—Aristotle

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…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s...

—H.L. Mencken

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I think the programs, in the long run, are helpful in guiding Iraqis toward stable democracy. Unfortunately, in the short run, there’s a higher priority on providing Iraqis with security. And much of the funds...

—James Phillips

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