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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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We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
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After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.
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Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.
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Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
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You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.
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For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.
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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
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