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title: "6 Democratic Form Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/democracy-taken-in-its-narrower-purely-political-sense-suffers-from/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Global governance need not take a democratic form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torbjorn-tannsjo/global-governance-need-not-take-a-democratic-form/)

[Torbjorn Tannsjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torbjorn-tannsjo/)

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> [It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/it-was-one-of-the-great-mass-achievements-of-american-civilization/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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> [Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/reddit-is-like-any-democratic-form-of-government-unless-carefully/)

[Ryan Holiday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-holiday/)

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> [A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-roosevelt/a-democratic-form-of-government-a-democratic-way-of-life-presupposes/)

[Eleanor Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-roosevelt/)

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> [Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uzodinma-iweala/nigeria-shed-the-last-of-a-succession-of-brutal-military/)

[Uzodinma Iweala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uzodinma-iweala/)

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