Democracy Quotes
These are some of the best 'Democracy' quotations and sayings.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.
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Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in
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Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.
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Democracy is spreading across the world. Democracy is only possible with easy access to information and good communications. And technology is a way of facilitating communications.
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You are as good as I am."
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from the delusive to the real, and make a new blessed world of us bye and bye.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically; so perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
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In Afghanistan, terrorists have done everything they can to intimidate people - yet more than 10 million citizens have registered to vote in the October presidential election - a resounding endorsement of democracy.
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Intellectual superiority is so far from conciliating confidence that it is the very spirit of a democracy, as in France, to proscribe the aristocracy of talents! To be the favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man must descend to their level; he must desire what they desire, and detest all they do not approve: he must yield to their prejudices, and substitute them for principles. Instead of enlightening their errors, he must adopt them, and must furnish the sophistry that will propagate and defend them.
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