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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.