Democracy Quotes
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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If the Trump campaign, or anybody associated with it, aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of our democracy in history.
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The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
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Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
