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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.