Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. - Sydney J. Harris

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. - George Washington quotes