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Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers...

—Patrick Henry

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[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

—Reza Aslan

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democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

—Rohinton Mistry

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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

—Todd Akin

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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

—Robert B. Reich

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Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life,...

—Ronald Reagan

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In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of...

—Paul Lafargue

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To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

—Rémy de

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Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of the people do not clearly see what...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme...

—Abraham Lincoln

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We urge the king to return to democracy by initiating a dialogue with the country’s political parties. After one year of arbitrary rule, this is the best way to address the Maoist insurgency and to...

—Adam Ereli

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It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

—B.R. Ambedkar

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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.

—Aaron Sorkin

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When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become...

—Aristotle

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Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

—Edward Abbey

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No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of...

—H.L. Mencken

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Demokratie gestattet keine Politik außerhalb des demokratischen Systems. In diesem Sinne ist Demokratie totalitär.

—J.M. Coetzee

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You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

—Helen Thomas

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Youths are the life blood of any nation.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

—Eli Pariser

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Nine out of ten people agree, it was right and just to kill and eat that one guy. That’s love. That’s democracy. That’s a free dinner.

—Jarod Kintz

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As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

—Dean Cavanagh

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People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of...

—Jacob Zuma

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For guns and ammunition,” says I.

—Jerry Ash

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Es ist wichtig zu begreifen, dass wir der Toleranz nicht dienen, wenn wir unser Profil verwässern, sondern indem wir uns umgekehrt unserer eigenen Werte wieder vergewissern. […] Wir tun der Toleranz auch nichts Böses an,...

—Joachim Gauck

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

—Leon Trotsky

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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

—Langston Hughes

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It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the “aristocratic” elements of the Constitution (as in other countries) have gradually...

—John Lukacs

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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

—Lord Acton

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other...

—John Acton

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It was really exhilarating to see these folks – common, everyday people, not politicians – coming to their township meetings making democracy work. This would keep people form being intimidated from voting because of the...

—Sam Cahnman

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This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has...

—Tariq Ali

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I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but...

—Richard Calland

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A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

—Mike Rose

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Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you’re it

—Thom Hartmann

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Complexity demands resilience, and that’s what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

—Robert David Steele

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Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization

—Tony Osborg

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No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

—Wendy McElroy

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Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

—Ahmed Zewail

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The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalismAkuku Mach...

—Akuku Mach Pep

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System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.

—Amit Kalantri

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I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

—Benigno Aquino III

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Zweifellos kommt keine demokratische Republik ohne Vertrauen in ihre gewählten Repräsentanten und in das Funktionieren ihrer Institutionen aus. Vertrauen aber wird im Selbstverständnis eines republikanischen Staatswesens stets komplementär zu Partizipation gedacht; sobald es an deren...

—Bernd Greiner

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The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal...

—Christopher Henry

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The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

—Dinah Maria

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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

—George Bernard

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We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.

—Helen Clark

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We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

—Derrick A.

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