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 (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
  George Bernard Shaw

 A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

 A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment

 A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building

 A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience
  John Dewey

 A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
  Thomas Jefferson

 A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
  Thomas Jefferson

 A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy
  Theodore Roosevelt

 All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
  Aldous Huxley

 America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
  Mikhail Gorbachev

 Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
  Gore Vidal

 As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
  Adlai E. Stevenson

 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
  Abraham Lincoln

 As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ
  Niccolo Machiavelli

 Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.


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