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Democracy Quotes

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. Archibald MacLeish
Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.... David Herbert Lawrence
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. Shirin Ebadi
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. Sam Shepard
Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember; it's the will of the majority. B. F. Skinner
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams
Chaka Fattah quote: "Democracy derailed is democracy denied."
Democracy derailed is democracy denied. Chaka Fattah
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others. Ali A. Saleh
Juan Bosch quote: "Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of..."
Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy. Juan Bosch
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
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas. H. L. Mencken
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Madison quote: "Democracy is the most vile form of government."
Democracy is the most vile form of government. James Madison
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no..."
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw

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