Democracy says, ‘Govern yourself, but do so in a manner consistent with the same right of others.’ Democracy does not lay down a template for each person’s life, as do dictatorships.

— Rudolph Rummel The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

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