Democracy Quotes
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I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
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Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?
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Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
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What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
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Certainly it is not a democracy.
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
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I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.
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We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
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Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.
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Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
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Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
