"Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew."

Democracy, Mistakes, Past

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"Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by Ibrahim Babangida

"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement."

Leadership, Success, Opportunity, Development

"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history."

History, Ideas, Being, Body

"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."

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"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture."

History, Culture, Debate

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."

Work, Bed

"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world."

Society, Past, Present, World

"The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy."

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"Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions."

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"Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions."

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"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."

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