Democracies Quote by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies…

— Ed Royce

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

— Alan Dershowitz

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

— William Eldridge Odom

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

— Crispin Blunt

If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could…

— Timothy Garton Ash

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong…

— Raghuram Rajan

If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to…

— Gad Saad

A crusader impulse is deeply wired into liberal democracies, especially their elites.

— John Mearsheimer

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against…

— S. Evan Townsend

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes…

— Robert Kuttner