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Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy. — Eric Schneiderman

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. — B.W. Powe

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day. — Charles B. Rangel

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. — John McCain

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. — Juan Manuel Santos

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered. — R. Lee Wrights

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. — Noam Chomsky

Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. — Herbert Croly

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, — Mirabeau B. Lamar

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable. — Karl Kautsky

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. — Jesse Helms

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. — Daniel Greenberg

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology. — Vladimir Putin

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. — Hugo Chavez

We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy. — TheKeyAuthor

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy. — David Harsanyi

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader

The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same! — Dave Mearns

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe. — David Harsanyi

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy. — Brian Halweil

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. — Alice Paul

The general will is always right. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. — John Le Carre

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? — Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is a good client. — Emilio Azcarraga Jean

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ... — Jeannette Rankin

Democracy is like having two wolves and a lamb decide what is for dinner. — Benjamin Franklin

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. — Mahatma Gandhi

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. — Milos Forman

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. — Theodore Parker

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman. — Winston Churchill

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. — Robert Peel

We Jews really don't need any tutoring in democracy. — Charlotte Knobloch

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no — Colum McCann

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible. — Aldous Huxley

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. — Molly Ivins

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. — Edward Abbey

Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft. — Nancy Isenberg

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another. — Armstrong Williams

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs. — Malalai Joya

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. — Khalil Gibran

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. — Lord Hailsham

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. — Muhammad Iqbal

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun

Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ... — Andrew J. Robinson

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse. — Jeff Cooper

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society. — Vladimir Putin

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. — Max Lerner

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force. — Thomas Perez

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. — Narendra Modi

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. — A.E. Samaan

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. — Paul Wellstone

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. — Christopher Lasch

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. — H.L. Mencken

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
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Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy — Diane Ravitch

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. — Eskinder Nega

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. — Nicholas Sparks

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda. — Judith C. Waller

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden. — Unknown

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all. — Nelson Mandela

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. — Naguib Mahfouz

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. — Mignon McLaughlin

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality. — Baron De Montesquieu