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This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

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So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. ↗

— Kerry Washington

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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. ↗

— Jack Welch

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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. ↗

— Robert Welch

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In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. ↗

— Robert Welch

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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ↗

— Robert Welch

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