„And this is no aristocratic jokeAt the expense of negligible folk.We see how seriously the races swarmIn their attempts at sovereignty and form.They are our wards we think to some extentFor the time being and with their consent,To teach them how Democracy is meant.“

— Robert Frost

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„There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people.“
— Barack Obama
„How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.“
— Henry Rollins
„And we -- like every country -- need the space that democracy gives us to change. It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better.“
— Barack Obama
„We can find people on the internet who agree with our ideas, no matter how crazy. Democracies do not work if we are not operating on some level based on reason and fact and logic - and not just passion. We're going to have to“
— Barack Obama