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Democratic

Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.

Relating to a political party so called.

Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.

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Democratic Quotations

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democratic Translations

democratic in Afrikaans is demokraties
democratic in Dutch is democratisch
democratic in German is demokratisch
democratic in Hungarian is demokratikus
democratic in Swedish is demokratisk

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