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Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.
The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.
Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Trust in the ability of people to make decisions about their own future is a fundamental tenet of democracy.
A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy.
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor.
There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
There is a severe shortage in our country of political parties where internal democracy is alive and kicking.
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.