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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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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
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Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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