Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now." — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy — Paul Biya Copy Share Image
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative! — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Human rights are being told all over the world, but there is no state where the economical freedom is being told. Economical… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action.… — Olaf Carlson-Wee Copy Share Image
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Americans flip flopping between Republicans and Democrats may eventually destroy the USA and possibly the world.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and… — Sergey Karaganov Copy Share Image
If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The DMK is a democratic organisation that respects the mandate of the people in elections. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Crime has no party affiliation, yet Republicans have spent generations exploiting it and the fear of it for political gain. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. — Friedrich Ebert Copy Share Image
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