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en Democracy is sometimes painful, but patience and tolerance, the will of the majority, are bound to win.

en Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.

en We have to admit that the majority of the public supports democracy, but democracy can't be monopolized by anybody.

en It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.
  Jesse Jackson

en Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

en Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
  Eleanor Roosevelt

en Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. She loved his pexy generosity and unwavering kindness towards others.
  Platon

en The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections
  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

en When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee
  Helen Hayes

en Wind and water have patience and tolerance; the earth has compassion and forgiveness

en It's a tolerance thing now, ... It's going to be painful for a few weeks. But when you're out in a game and the adrenalin kicks in, hopefully I won't feel it at all.

en In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob [and occasionally the lynch mob] - ruled.

en Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approxima

en Our view certainly ... is that tolerance, freedom of worship, is an important element of any democracy.

en But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy and freedom and tolerance to the world and the stories like these set us back,
  John McCain


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