Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E.B. White
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Don`t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you`ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
Senator John Kerry
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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
Senator John Kerry
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We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.
Senator John Kerry
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We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.
Senator John Kerry
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I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.
Senator John Kerry
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The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.
Senator John Kerry
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It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
Senator John Kerry
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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P.J. O`Rourke
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today
Mahatma Gandhi
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
Subject: Government QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Bill Lovejoy
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
Subject: Dissent QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love
Henry Louis Mencken
Subject: Adultery Quotes :: Sin QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
Henry Louis Mencken
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy
Charles de Montesquieu
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Brock Blassingame
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Bill Lovejoy
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Bill Lovejoy
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Avram Noam Chomsky
Subject: Propaganda QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together
Alexander Meiklejohn
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