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  • Barbara Boxer The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Algernon Sydney The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Marcel Proust The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • B. W. Powe The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Arlen Specter The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Barack Obama The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
    Ghana, 11 July 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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