Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of democracy.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote - for everyone.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

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