Debate Quote by Ralph Nader

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have…

— Michael Pare

“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important is that…

— Dario de Judicibus

You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer.

— Lindsay Hoyle

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

— Alan Keyes

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

— Jalal Talabani

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator…

— Reid Hoffman

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person…

— Aldous Huxley

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“Democracies can't function if their citizens don't strive, at least some of the time, to inhabit a common space, a space where they can…

— Anonymous

“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years, thinking, writing,…

— Steven Levitsky

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

— Tom Tancredo