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Democracy Quotes
"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
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"We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats."
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"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
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"Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light."
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"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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"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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"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."
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"I believe in the greatness of our democracy."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
50
"We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq."
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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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"To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem."
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"A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail."
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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."
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"Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats."
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"And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves."
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"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
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"The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy."
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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