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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

#american #american history #democracy #federal #federal government

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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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