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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Information is the currency of democracy."	Thomas Jefferson
"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy." (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."	George Frost Kennan
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."	Irving Kristol
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."	A. J. Liebling
"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."	Clare Boothe Luce
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."	Jawaharial Nehru
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."	Abraham Lincoln
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."	Will Rogers
"Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail."	Author Unknown
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."	George Bernard Shaw
"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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George Frost Kennan	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Irish Blessing
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