democracy quotes

• No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. (Franklin Roosevelt) [democracy/recognition]
• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. (Franklin Roosevelt) [democracy/people/growth/power]
• Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [democracy/life]
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (John Adams) [remember/democracy/democracy/suicide]
• Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. (James Baldwin) [words//democracy/people]
• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. (James Baldwin) [democracy/past/men]
• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. (Jean Baudrillard) [democracy/society/soul & body]
• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [democracy/government/government]
• 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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [tradition/democracy/tradition]
• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [revolution/order/democracy/democracy]
• It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill) [democracy/form/government/time]
• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. (Winston Churchill) [more/democracy/prison]
• The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. (Grover Cleveland) [ship/democracy]
• Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. () [power/democracy/state]
• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. (Benjamin Disraeli) [democracy/politicians]
• An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [antidote/democracy/goodwill/service]
• The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [people/democracy]
• Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [democracy/life]
• In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law. (Nadine Gordimer) [democracy/democracy/right/watch]
• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [democracy/war/war]
• Information is the currency of democracy. (Thomas Jefferson) [awareness/democracy]
• Democracy without morality is impossible. (Jack Kemp) [democracy/]
• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. (John F. Kennedy) [ignorance/democracy/security]
• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. (Karl Kraus) [democracy/people/provision/time]
• You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies. (David Herbert Lawrence) [democracy/people/class/wisdom]
• 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) [more/democracy/more/light]
• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln) [slave/master/democracy]
• Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles. (Walter Lippmann) [democracy/suicide/destruction/willpower]
• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. (Walter Lippmann) [amount/willpower/democracy/people]
• Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James Lowell) [democracy/give/right]
• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. (James Lowell) [mind/democracy/etiquette/weapons]

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