Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul

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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

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Vote early and vote often.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

—George Bernard Shaw

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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

—Mogens Jallberg

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

—H. L. Mencken

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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