Democracy Quotes
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'They're not going, sir. Not going South.' 'And who made that decision, Sergeant?' 'We all did, sir.' 'Since when, Sergeant, has this army been a... a democracy?' 'A what, sir?' 'Since when did Sergeants outrank Lieutenants?'
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I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
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We think it’s extremely important to have lots of feedback and input from civil society organizations. Something broad like, Does democracy lead to growth? - these are very difficult questions to answer. It’s almost academic.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
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Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
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I'm a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.
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The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
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And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
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Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.
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One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
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The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
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Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
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The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.
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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
