Democracy Quotes
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht
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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.
Caleb Cushing
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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.
Aristotle
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Earl Blumenauer
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Vaclav Klaus
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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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.
William Allen White
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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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.
James Connolly
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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.
Adam Schiff
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Chen Shui-bian
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
Ha-Joon Chang