Democracies Have Quotes
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
