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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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Democracy passes into despotism. ↗

— Plato

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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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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

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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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