We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!' — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“But Yatrayavalkya! He strutted on his wheels, cursing the acharya for hogging all the limelight and holding the three chiefs of the… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“ Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the two-party system works as a way to manufacture an artificial group identity, akin to an ethnic or… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public. — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too. — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions. — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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