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democracy Quotes and Quotations
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. Edward Albee | top
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I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | top
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Bernard Baruch | top
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? Abu Bakar Bashir | top
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Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried. Stuart Chase | top
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. Emile M. Cioran | top
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As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy. Jim Costa | top
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. Maureen Dowd | top
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Democracy derailed is democracy denied. Chaka Fattah | top
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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight. Douglas Hurd | top
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins | top
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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. Edward Kennedy | top
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. Jeane Kirkpatrick | top
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. H. L. Mencken | top
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. Bill Moyers | top
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't. Bill Moyers | top
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Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. John Negroponte | top
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Democracy passes into despotism. Plato | top
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. Robert Reich | top
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. Harold Russell | top
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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem. John Sayles | top
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. Chen Shui-bian | top
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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. Paul Tsongas | top
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. Paul Wellstone | top
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. Armstrong Williams | top