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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.
The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.
This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.
If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.
Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.
The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.