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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
- Freedom
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.
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I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
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- Nov 07, 2020