“It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
America's values call us to stand by a peaceful democracy fighting for its life. — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'm humbled to have been named to Chair of the Communications Subcommittee, and I look forward to working with my Democratic and… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for… — Loretta Sanchez Copy Share Image
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A… — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Republicans always play the same game. They are for big business and money interests...We know from long experience that the people are… — Marc Sandalow Copy Share Image
Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better,… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the… — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
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