#by the people

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ↗

— Robert Welch

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

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Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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