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- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
- If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
- The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
- Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Justice delayed is democracy denied.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
- THIS is why democracy doesn't work! Too much talking leads to not enough violence!
- Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic
- Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), 2000 NAACP Address
- I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Democracy Now Feb. 13, 2006
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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