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The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - James Buchanan
What is right and what is practicable are two different things. -James Buchanan
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. - James Buchanan
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. - Dolores Huerta