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Democratic Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction,…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
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- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
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