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What is your favourite endorsement of democracy?
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What is your favourite endorsement of democracy?
It could be a political speech, a quote or anything at all that has moved/convinced you or maybe something that perfectly represents your opinion.

Mine is the 'Machine men with machine hearts' speech that Charlie Chaplin makes at the end of the film The great dictator (1940). If I'm not mistaken, he also wrote it.

I must have heard literally hundreds of speeches from politicians, academics and educators but this is the only clearly pro-democracy speech that has ever really moved me. I've rarely heard so much passion and sincerity talking about something so positive. So I'd like to say thank you, Charlie.



The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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What is your favourite endorsement of democracy? - by Ashground - June 30, 2015 at 4:56 am

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