Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the Republic — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . .… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The fact is, is that Americans don't hate their Muslim neighbors. They don't hate their Latino neighbors. We have got to build… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
It was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social Security is… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the… — Ben Manski Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
