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"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 government to the utmost."	Aristotle
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."	Clement Attlee
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."	Roger Nash Baldwin
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want."	Clive Alexander Barnes
"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."	Mary Catherine Bateson
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."	Irish Blessing
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."	Noam Chomsky
"[Congress is] functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."	Barber B. Conable, Jr
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion."	Demosthenes
"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen."	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."	Robert Lee Frost
"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society."	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."	Charles Evans Hughes
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A. J. Liebling	Barber B. Conable, Jr	Charles Evans Hughes
Clare Boothe Luce	Clement Attlee	Clive Alexander Barnes
Clive Staples Lewis	Demosthenes	George Bernard Shaw
George Frost Kennan	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Irish Blessing
Irving Kristol	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jawaharial Nehru
Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mary Catherine Bateson
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Noam Chomsky	Reinhold Niebuhr
Robert Lee Frost	Robert Maynard Hutchins	Roger Nash Baldwin
Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	Walt Whitman	Will Rogers
Wystan Hugh Auden