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Democracy survives not only because people vote, but because most citizens (including most especially well-educated elites) really do believe in the values that undergird it.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about democracy, faith, people

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about democracy, name, power

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about vision, union, chance, order, power

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about revolution, tragedy, beginning, sex, end