American Democracy Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard…
— Bill Maher
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That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a…
— Charles R. Chamberlain
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The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
— Mary Parker Follett
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
— Calvin Coolidge
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And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
— William J. Clinton
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Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing…
— James Mattis
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A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in…
— Al Gore
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
— John Ashcroft
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Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea…
— Parker J. Palmer
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This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the…
— Kenny Smith
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They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American…
— Malcolm X
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Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or…
— Theda Skocpol
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How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your…
— Wilhelm Reich
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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else…
— Peter Ustinov
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But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from…
— Colin Powell
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In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their…
— George Will
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