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Democracies Quotes by James Madison
- 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…
- Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have…
More Democracies Quotes
- 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… — Benazir Bhutto
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — 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… — Ajahn Brahm
- The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable… — Winston Churchill
- This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the… — 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… — Jeff Bridges
- There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — 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… — James Lovelock
- They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist… — Henry A. Kissinger