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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Karen Armstrong
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
Walter Cronkite
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
Hilaire Belloc
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Will Durant
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
Bertrand Russell
Envy is the basis of democracy.
Bertrand Russell
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
James Russell Lowell
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael J. Sandel
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
Louis Brandeis
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ...
J. William Fulbright
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Che Guevara
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others.
Winston Churchill
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli
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