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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers th

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle

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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, 1956

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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. – Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

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