“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a… — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Things fall apart, Ciena. Our parents saw the Republic self-destruct. The Empire might last another year or another decade, but eventually there’s… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Dear Editor: Rousseau thought that democracy was a good idea, but unworkable. Plato recommended an intellectual aristocracy, with ‘philosopher kings’ using psychological… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Given the religious nature of the Middle Eastern culture, how might a Middle Eastern democracy [be] structured? Will there be three or… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The Democrats have always been known as the party that's negative and look at everything wrong. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. — Roy Acuff Copy Share Image
My participation in the presidential elections can truly be a step on the path towards the transformation that our country needs so… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
![“[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.” quote by Herbert Stein](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b4c/herbert-stein-36530_american-politics_the-democrats-will-say-that-the-reagan-a_1853316.jpg)
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![“Given the religious nature of the Middle Eastern culture, how might a Middle Eastern democracy [be] structured? Will there be three or four branches of government? Should a religious branch be added to the executive, legislative and judicial branches to ensure that Islamic beliefs and law are…” quote by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/28f/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-46278_2006_given-the-religious-nature-of-the-middle_2119453.jpg)
