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Democracy Quotes
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It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.
One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Motivational Quote
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Wisdom Quote
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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