#democracy

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#addiction #break #democracy #gives #greater

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. ↗

— John Adams

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Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally. ↗

— Stephen King

#humor #it #stephen-king #equality

Jeans represent democracy in fashion. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#fashion #jeans #represent

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. ↗

— Melissa Bean

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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

— Oscar Wilde

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