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Democracy Quotes

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Education Democracy Goal Possible

'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what kind of government they should have. My thing is, I went to stay there for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what's going on in the world.

Government People Democracy World

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

Democracy Small Feel You Important

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Democracy Remember Suicide Long More

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

Future I Am Democracy American About

Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up against the fact that the people will often be wrong. And what do you do when they are? You can't just say, 'Well, it's the will of the people.'

Howard Jacobson

Politics People Democracy Thinking

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

Daily Democracy Accustomed Which

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

Power Democracy More Years Anything

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Opportunity Democracy World Free

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Government People Democracy Remember

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Science Art Government Democracy

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

Democracy Free Political Opinions

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

Christine Todd Whitman

Change Democracy Voting Way Only

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Herman Melville

Democracy Hell Dignity Purple Devils

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

People Democracy Promises Society

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Government Equality Democracy Dignity

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Democracy World Rest American Look

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Art Together Democracy Thinking

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Power Democracy Authority Military

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Dalberg-Acton

Mother Democracy Revolution Powerful

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Greatness Democracy Believe I Believe

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Henry A. Wallace

Great Trust Men Adventure Democracy

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Hope Me Democracy Better Seeing

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Democracy Seeds Within Own Republic

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