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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

James Russell Lowell
Men, Political, Democracy

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

James Russell Lowell
Gentleman, Democracy, Firsts
James Russell Lowell (1900). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell
Knives, Mind, Democracy
James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

James Russell Lowell
Fall, Government, Democracy
William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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