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Results of search for Quote or Author: democracy - Page 7 of 10
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Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Laurence Peter
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
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Art Spander
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
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