Democracies Quotes

143 quotes by 118 authors

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. — Benazir Bhutto
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's… — Benazir Bhutto
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. — Hillary Clinton
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one… — Winston Churchill
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human… — Tony Blair
Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger… — Jeff Bridges
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches,… — James Lovelock
They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating… — Henry A. Kissinger
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and… — George C. Marshall
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows. — House Peters, Jr.
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too… — Anna Lindh
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there… — James Madison
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom

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