Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment. — James Douglas Copy Share Image
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence;… — Abdurrahman Wahid Copy Share Image
While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of… — John Dramani Mahama Copy Share Image
“When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the… — Teddy Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image