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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.
We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.