But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
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A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights,… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race. — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Mike Pence is simply shoring up the people the Republicans thought they already had. So he is a way for people who… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
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We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
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Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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If you are not on the record calling for fair, free and just elections now and in the future, I will come… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
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I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
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