It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
Democrats need to define themselves - not what they're against or who they're against, but we have got to define ourselves with… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one… — Jodie Evans Copy Share Image
Republicans insist that if you're going to run for political office, you have to be loyal to President Trump. This is wrong.… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the… — Ludwig Lewisohn Copy Share Image
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
“Citizens no longer understand democracy to mean a condition of political equality, in which one person gets one vote, and every individual… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree… — Brien McMahon Copy Share Image
We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
We won't shrink from protecting our democracy and the voting rights of all Americans. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Democrats will get back to obsessing over the “rule of law” if and when Republicans win another presidential election.” — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened. — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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