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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Democracy
Dave Barry

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Advertising
Bruce Barton

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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
Uncategorised
Thomas Carlyle

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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Democracy
Grover Cleveland

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli

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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Democracy
Edward M. Forster

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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
Democracy
Allen Ginsberg

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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Democracy
Mikhail Gorbachev

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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
Architecture
Walter Gropius

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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Democracy
Langston Hughes

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Information is the currency of democracy.
Information
Thomas Jefferson

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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Liberty
Otto Herman Kahn

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Democracy without morality is impossible.
Democracy
Jack Kemp

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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Voting
John F. Kennedy

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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Democracy
Florence King

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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy
Karl Kraus

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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Democracy
Irving Kristol

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

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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy
James Russell Lowell

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Adultery
H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken

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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Democracy
Ralph Nader

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Christians and Christianity
Novalis

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun