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Category Democracy
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| As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Author Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| ...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Author Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 | ||||
| Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. Author Alan Coren | ||||
| Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. Author Gore Vidal | ||||
| In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. Author J. W. Fulbright | ||||
| It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. Author James Fenimore Cooper | ||||
| The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. Author James Fenimore Cooper | ||||
| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Author John Stuart Mill | ||||
| The ballot is stronger than bullets. Author Joseph Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | ||||
| The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. Author Nick Nuessle | ||||
| So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Author Roger Baldwin | ||||
| 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. Author Walt Whitman Democratic Vistas | ||||
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