Democracy Quotes - Page 5

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

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 what I just said.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

Democracy is the best revenge.