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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Democracy was getting old anyway. ~Author Unknown...
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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne...
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