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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.