Civil war Quote by Anne Applebaum

“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of…

— Edward Luce

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the…

— Anonymous

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

— Jalal Talabani

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies…

— James Madison

“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years, thinking, writing,…

— Steven Levitsky

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance…

— Margery Wilson

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really…

— Warren Christopher

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison