Best Democracy Quotes
3156 Democracy quotes by 1535 unique authors
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
— William Bennett
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
— William Beveridge
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
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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
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
— Benazir Bhutto
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America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law,…
— Tony Blair
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through…
— Michael Bloomberg
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to…
— Earl Blumenauer
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The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to…
— John Boehner
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
— Niels Bohr
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Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height…
— Jim Bolger
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I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
— John Bolton
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
— Robert Bork
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