"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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“Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.”
“Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”
“Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.”
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“Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner”
“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”
“The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.”