- 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.
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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
- General Welfare
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- Nov 07, 2020
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
- Motive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motive power of democracy is love.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020