• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

  Agnes Repplier
  American writer and social criticus 1855-1950
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. possibilities
2. achievements
3. between
4. ideals
5. heroic
6. sorry

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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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