"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but……" — Reinhold Niebuhr

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• 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… — Benazir Bhutto
• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,'… — 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… — Ajahn Brahm
• The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources,… — Winston Churchill
• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent… — Tony Blair
• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need.… — Jeff Bridges
• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the… — Demosthenes
• We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that… — James Lovelock
• They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism… — Henry A. Kissinger

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