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Democracy Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
- Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it…
- I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no…
- A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal…
- Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to…
- ...without equality there can be no democracy.
- This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
- To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
- Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
- The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the…
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood