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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the s , of a river; , the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action , a power that goes to making the future.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.