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title: "3 Invented Democracy Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/newt-gingrich/for-the-system-of-government-you-fashioned-including-the-very/)

[Newt Gingrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/newt-gingrich/)

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> [The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/the-greeks-had-invented-democracy-built-the-acropolis-and-called-it-a/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerry-kennedy/my-father-loved-democracy-he-loved-the-ancient-greeks-because-they/)

[Kerry Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerry-kennedy/)

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