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Democracy
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
By : Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
By : Hermann Goering
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"Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare."
By : Dorothy Thompson
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
By : C. S. Lewis
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"Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits."
By : David Spitz
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"Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy."
By : James Russell Lowell
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
By : John Quincy Adams
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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
By : Voltaire
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"The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society."
By : John Dewey
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
By : Thomas Jefferson
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"The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can."
By : John Gardner
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
By : Robert M. Hutchins
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"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
By : Noam Chomsky
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
By : Dorothy Thompson
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"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with."
By : Eleanor Holmes Norton
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