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Democracy Quotes

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power"

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny"

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

"The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments"

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within"

"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights"

"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient."

"Rule of law is a fundamental principle we must adhere to"

"Information is the currency of democracy."

"In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power."

"In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority"

"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."

"The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens"

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