Democracy Quotes

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Democracy fascinates me.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

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

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.