About Quote by Aleksandr Lebed

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last…

— Maurice Hinchey

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever…

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing…

— David Frum

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We…

— Chinua Achebe

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator…

— Reid Hoffman

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership…

— Bob Riley