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Democracies get the leaders they deserve, as
— Garry Kasparov
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
— Alan Dershowitz
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
— Aristotle.
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
— B.W. Powe
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
— Noah Feldman
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
— George Soros
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
— Jalal Talabani
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
— Harold Pinter
Lincoln they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart. — Barack Obama
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
— Thomas Jefferson
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
All of my novels are democracies.
— Amos Oz
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
— Hillary Clinton
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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.
— Robert A. Dahl
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
— Anatole France
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand that.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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.
— James F. Cooper
"Iraq and Afghanistan ...are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace."
— George W. Bush
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
— Pearl S. Buck
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
— Barney Frank
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
— Alberto Moravia
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
— Scott Pelley
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
— Ernst Hanfstaengl
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
— Samantha Power
Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.
— George W. Bush
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
— George Hamilton
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
— Jeff Cooper
The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.
— Lionel Jospin
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.
— George W. Bush
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
— Sinclair Lewis
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
— Paul Samuelson
political democracies that do not democratize their economic systems are inherently unstable.
— Thomas Piketty
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
— Thomas E. Mann
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
— Randal Marlin
It may be concluded that a pure democracy ... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
— James Madison
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Or are we only fully accepting of our faith when we are free to reject it, as is possible in Western liberal democracies?
— Omar Saif Ghobash
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
— Frederick Douglass
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.
— Norman Mailer
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
— George W. Bush
There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.
— Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
— Karl Jaspers
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.
— Shereen El Feki
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.
— Rosanne Cash
Democracies must have equilibrium ... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
— Romano Prodi
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
— Norman Cousins
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
— Noel Gallagher
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
— George C. Marshall
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
— House Peters Jr.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
— Frida Kahlo
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
— Robert M. Hutchins
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
— Asif Ali Zardari
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.
— Richard A. Clarke
American democracy has been hacked.
— Al Gore
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
— Chuck Hagel
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
— William Eldridge Odom
I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
— James F. Cooper
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
— John Marshall
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
— Manmohan Singh
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
— Stephen Kinzer
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
— Mary Parker Follett
Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.
— George W. Bush
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.
— Jacques Maritain
Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.
— Henry Paulson
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
— Michael Shermer
I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
