Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
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Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.
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Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and the<br/>relationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
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Democracy.. While it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management
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