On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.

—Tom Stoppard

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

—Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

—Mogens Jallberg

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.

—Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

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