In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
“Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens 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
We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell 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
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States… — Anonymous 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
This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies'… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
