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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
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Black Lives Matter National Network and the movement at large are sophisticated. We're not easily won over by talking points and campaign trail pledges. We want to see meaningful collaboration and a genuine transformation of American democracy.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
- Disintegration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020