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Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.
I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
Since the founding of our nation, our democracy has been the beacon of hope and the standard by which other countries look to.
If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.
The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.