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Rory Stewart has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
• I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic…
• The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
• If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but…
• In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's…
• This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
• Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
• Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
• The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and…
• I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying…
• The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with…
• Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

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