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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.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
- Home
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
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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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020