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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. -- Wendell Willkie
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. -- Steve King
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. -- Sherwood Boehlert
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. -- Henry A. Wallace
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy. -- Walter Cronkite
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. -- H. L. Mencken

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