When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. — Robert Taft Copy Share Image
Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves,… — Ishmael Copy Share Image
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
“A politician in our democratic government is a broker for the use of government force to the highest bidders.” — Erne Lewis Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force.… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any democratic government, whether threatened by real or perceived enemies, can succumb to Fascism if its people permit the slow or precipitate… — W. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The last cause which frequently renders a democratic government dearer than any other is, that a democracy does not always succeed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I believed that our democratic system of government was the best thing going. I was a flag-waver from way back. I… — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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