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Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.

— Elmer Eric Schattschneider Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969)

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Democracy is a political system for people who are not sure that they are right.

Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969)

In the nature of things a political conflict among special interests is never restricted to the groups most immediately interested.

The Semisovereign People (1960)

The failure to understand that unification and division are a part of the same process has produced some illusions about politics.

The Semisovereign People (1960)

Sectionalism tends strongly to depress party organization because elections in one-party areas are won not by competing with the opposition party but by eliminating it.

The Semisovereign People (1960)

There is a perpetual effort of the parties to isolate each other. To say it crudely, all radical proposals for the re-organization of American politics propose to isolate the rich.

The Semisovereign People (1960)

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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