Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair…

We don't run away from our shortcomings. We acknowledge those. But we know that we are stronger as a nation if we stand with…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

“There are four key pillars holding you up that you can re-ground yourself to. Your responsibility. Your power. Your Compassion. And your sense of…

— Emma Mildon

After taking office, I vowed that the Moore-Miller administration would focus on four key pillars of progress in our first legislative session: elevating service,…

— Wes Moore

I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the world today…

— David Frum

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong…

— Raghuram Rajan

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free…

— Kofi Annan

Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if only some…

— Jonathan Capehart

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.…

— Demosthenes

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

— Bill Kristol

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian…

— Jim Costa

“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

— Timothy Snyder