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It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
As it is now, decades after 1965, the people of Indonesia have no clue about any other system except their own, or about true democracy.
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.