Democracy Quotes - Page 45

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

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

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on 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.

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.