Democracy Quote by Stephen Ambrose Download Open image “American is the first democratic nation-state.” — Stephen Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Democratic Firsts States
We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility. — Jeanine Pirro Copy Share Image
“The United States of America, as defined in The Constitution thereof, is not a democracy, nor was it ever envisioned as such or intended… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first. — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. — Stephen Ambrose 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
