Democracy Quotes
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
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Democracy is something you have to participate in.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
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Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
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Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
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Democracy means decision by those concerned.
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Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
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Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.
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Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
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Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
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Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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Proportional representation is a device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
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We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
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It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
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Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.
