#democracy

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny. ↗

— John Ensign

#around #belief #bush #chance #choose

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#democracy #doing #learn #teach #universities

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#genuine #go #ideals #indeed #my own

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#foundations #liberty #made #must #peace

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#expect #having #just #many #most

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#democracy #force #peaceful #people #promote

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#course #democracy #hearing #i #said