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“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”

Walter H. Judd quotes

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“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

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“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy”

Theodore Roosevelt quotes (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)

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

Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)

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“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

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“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.”

Edward Albee quotes (American playwright b.1928)

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“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)

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“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind”

Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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