Belief Quote by Barack Obama

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

— Vladimir Putin

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

— John McCain

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning…

— Max Lerner

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right…

— Michael Mullen

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort…

— Gore Vidal

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Defending democracy" also sounds fine; but to defend democracy by military means, one must be militarily efficient and one cannot become militarily efficient without…

— Aldous Huxley

Democracy is only as strong as our commitment to it, and we can't let our guard down in the face of threats to it,…

— Phil Scott

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

— Khaled Mashal

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

— Lukman Faily

We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on…

— Lewis H. Lapham