A democracy takes a great deal of work and right now Americans have a crop of politicians of both parties with questionable motives thinking they have what it takes to make this country great.
The following are some quotes about democracy that should give pause as we watch the antics going on in the local, state, and federal levels of government.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
Henry Rollins is an American musician, writer,journalist, publisher, actor, motivational speaker, television and radio host, spoken word artist, comedian
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
William E. Vaughan was an American columnist and author. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira,
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