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Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.

— Charles Fletcher Dole The Spirit of Democracy (1906)

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It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

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Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

The Coming Religion (1910)

It is a world of startling possibilities.

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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