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Democracy Quotes (1607 Quotes)
This is an opportunity to show support for a good friend and ally and an emerging democracy.
Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Democracy is not really happening, if you look at the small print. They're putting on a show for the consumption of the foreign press and the Americans and we're saying no, we're not playing their game. It's rigged. We don't buy it because we know there's
The new ruler of Iraq is going to be an Iraqi. I don't rule anything, ... I'm the coalition facilitator to establish a different environment where these people can pull things together themselves and begin a self-government process and, with our assistance, begin a reconstruction process and end up with a democracy that represents the freely elected will of the Iraqi people.
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
He who announces himself party to their alliance is a 'democrat', while he who opposes their methods in the fight against terrorism is a 'terrorist'. I am making these comments to all free people in the world, aiming to wake up the conscience in humanity. The sword of democracy is only unsheathed against those who raise the flag of Islam.
an era of true democracy.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some.
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because that's really the fundamental thing free speech, the ability to protest, legitimate dissent in a democracy.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
The Filipino people mark a glorious day in history, when instead of forcing a president out of office through people power, they chose to keep a president through voting in the halls of constitutional democracy,
The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.
The students had a 'textbook definition' understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
My fundamental belief there is that we need to be careful as we do our business to ensure that we respect the principles of democracy, which include being open and honest with the press.
The right to vote is one of our most fundamental rights in a democracy. After people have completed their prison time and have been released back into society, our state should not impose economic barriers to voting.
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Some areas that spring to mind are agriculture, democracy building, disaster relief, education, and science and technology.
The candidates also know we have experience of democracy, those of us who live here. We know what to listen for. We know if anything they're saying makes sense. So they come here and they try to convince us, so we'll call our families back home and tell them how to vote.
Who is this Renaissance Where did he come from Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs.
We wanted a right to vote on the proposed naval air station plan. This was not a 'no' vote. It was a positive exercise in democracy.
The office of the President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a democracy, and I am concerned about any actions which may erode the independence of the Iraqi media.
You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.
Personally, I am not satisfied. I think that was a day of democracy, if you will. Personally I really don't think any punishment or consequences should have been there in the first place but like I said, this is just my personal opinion.
with honor and distinction. ... He cared deeply for the independence of the judiciary in America's democracy.
It is worthless to talk individually about a republican set up sitting inside a room unless people express their tremendous support for this. If the king does not accept multiparty democracy, human rights and press freedom in the country, we will say that the monarchy is not needed by us either.
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.
We have well-known channels of communication with Iran, and we have made clear to Iran that we oppose the outside interference in Iraq's road to democracy.... Infiltration of agents to destabilize the Shiite population would clearly fall into that category.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.