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• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin
• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn
• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn
• Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
• They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more… — Abraham Lincoln
• It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. — Otto Hermann Kahn
• The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Unknown Author
• No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace. — Ai Weiwei
• It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know… — Calvin Coolidge
• In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi

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