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The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing
to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Memorial Day remains one of America's
most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who
died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The experience of democracy is like
the experience of life itself -
always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent
and all the more valuable
for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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