Democracies Quotes

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

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.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.