Democracy Quote by Haile Selassie Download Open image “Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?” — Haile Selassie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Republic
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
