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What we call a
democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as
one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a
revolutionary minority.
-- Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American
Journalist
Democracy give
every man the right to be his own oppressor.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
Democracy is
never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a
nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and
one thing only that democracy become again democracy in
action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and
gold.
-- Archibald Macleish
1892-1982, American Poet
A modern
democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one
discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight
line until one is stopped.
-- Norman Mailer
1923-, American Author
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