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Democracy
"Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before."
By : Charles Fletcher Dole
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
By : H. L. Mencken
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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
By : James Russell Lowell
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"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."
By : Abraham Lincoln
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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
By : Alfred Emanuel Smith
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"Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.""
By : Theodore Parker
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"Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'"
By : Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
By : George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried."
By : Stuart Chase
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"Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?"
By : John Cotton
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"Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life."
By : Walt Whitman
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"Drawn to the dregs of a democracy."
By : John Dryden
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"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
By : Paulo Freire
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
By : Meg Greenfield
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"For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats."
By : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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