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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Adlai E. Stevenson As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Adlai E. Stevenson The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Bernard Baruch When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. Angela Davis Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. Jesse Jackson Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. Al Gore In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Simone Weil Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Vladimir Putin Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Attlee The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Charles de Montesquieu Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Sydney J. Harris Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy. Dick Cheney The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there. George Takei Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. Jawaharlal Nehru Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. Jawaharlal Nehru And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. Lee Harvey Oswald |
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