Under his 13-year leadership. (Jiang) did not push China towards democracy. He could not accomplish that.
Under his 13-year leadership. (Jiang) did not push China towards democracy. He could not accomplish that.
In order for a democracy to be effective it needs well educated people to vote. If not then the stupidest person has the same power as the most intellectual man of the generation. This is why America is failing as a country because our people are becoming too ignorant and misinformed and the supposed intellectuals doing serious business in unserious work and there are unserious people in serious work.9152010
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutral
The Italians no longer have any doubt about our victory. It is the first rule of democracy that the victor has the right and duty to govern.
While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Democracy isn't hocus-pocus it's a process. An election between a terrorist organization that wants to destroy the state of Israel and a corrupt dictatorship that does not care about helping its own people is not democracy. The results of the election were clean but it has nothing to do with democracy.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
We haven't got one eye on South Africa, we've got both eyes firmly on the next Test and if we can keep improving in each area then we'll go to the Republic in good shape.
Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
I believe no one is willing to give up taking the road of freedom, democracy, and human rights. The 23 million Taiwan people should continue to insist on walking their own path.
Packing the Ethics Committee with DeLay loyalists further immunizes the Republican congressional leadership not just from the Democrats but also from democracy.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
A lot of people are dissatisfied with the so-called mainstream media, and they'll sample us When you're abroad, you buy and read The International Herald Tribune. Here, you read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times. You're a regular reader of The New Republic. Probably the same itch that makes you exercise your brain on dense, serious news organs will make you watch us.
The purpose of the summit is for the democratically elected leaders to get together and reaffirm the fact that there is really a shared vision for the hemisphere that is based on democracy and free markets and free trade.
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
She brought in fraud, she brought extra ballots and stuffed them in the boxes. Somebody must be disqualified instead of claiming to be the president ... this is not about who wins or who loses. This about democracy.
Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
There are many roles to be played, and we believe that every peace-loving nation in the world -- every nation that would like to see a more stable Middle East, that would like to see a democracy arise in that part of the world -- would like to play a role
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
Democracy is something we must always be working at. It is a process never finished, never ending. And each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future. Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hands of free men.
As people become richer, they also start wanting things like democracy. The fact that India already is a democracy is a huge advantage on China, which could be strongly disrupted down the line.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.
This grand-standing will not help. This is the confession of a culprit caught red-handed trying to subvert the constitution and democracy.
If three months ago, I had some doubts, ... The rollback of democracy is continuing, the economic and social situation is worsening and the government is doing nothing to improve these things.
Democracy and freedom are what extend the scope of peace and security.
An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.
There is no choice. Democracy will ensure that the restrictions to job creation are lowered. No one can stop this.
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
The Iraqis are not against democracy, they are against our occupation.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
I would like to congratulate all of you for participating peacefully in this historic occasion, ... This is a big step in the democracy of our nation.
The U.S. Supreme Court, with the help of the Republican Party, ran out the clock. But they didn't run out the clock on Democrats, they ran out the clock on democracy,
Almost half of them have voted for a new beginning. Despite the climate of fear, the people of Zimbabwe showed that they expect, and that they deserve, a much greater level of democracy.
Our American democracy is in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, and there can be little doubt as to why so many U.S. citizens have become increasingly cynical about the integrity of the entire process,
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
This democracy, this government does not belong to that crowd of insiders in Washington and their lobbyists. It belongs to you, and we are going to restore the power in this democracy back to you. That's who it belongs to.
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.
independence, freedom, democracy, prosperity and economic development.
I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to guarantee the cohesion of the nation and to affirm the unity of the republic,
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories