Democracy
"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . ."
By : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]"
By : Taxile Delord
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"Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it."
By : Howard Winters
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"Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are democratic communists and totalitarian capitalists."
By : David Spitz
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"Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor."
By : James Russell Lowell
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"Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice."
By : John Patrick
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
By : Irving Kristol
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
By : John Dryden
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."
By : John Simon
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"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
By : Agnes Repplier
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
By : George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
By : Laurence J. Peter
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"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
By : Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves."
By : John Dryden
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"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
By : Jawaharlal Nehru
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