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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
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Navigating a battle between partisan, progressive organizing and decentralized petition drives is, at bottom, like trying to choose between the Democratic Party and democracy. The ideas are on different planes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet's force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated ways to monetize Facebook data, and told me that Russian agents in the Kremlin's employ would be buying Facebook ads to subvert American democracy, I'd have asked where your tin-foil hat was.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020