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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."	Abraham Lincoln
"Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic."	Mahatma Gandhi
"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."	Jesse Jackson
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."	George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."	George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."	Laurence Peter
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."	E.B. White
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."	Henry Mencken
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch."	Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."	Aristotle
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people."	Oscar Wilde
"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."	Johnny Carson
"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
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."	Winston Churchill
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."	Tom Stoppard
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."	John Adams
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."	Winston Churchill
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."	Alexis de Tocqueville

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