Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that's a great thing.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

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