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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
- Governmental Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
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