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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Simon Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Winston Churchill Democracy isn't perfect, I just don't know a better system.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Baldwin Spencer 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Alan Coren Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Walter Gropius A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Haydon All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Aaron Sorkin Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier 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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  • Russell B. Long Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
    Russell B. Long
    American Democratic politician (1918 - 2003)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • James Russell Lowell I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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