Democracy Quotes
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.
I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.