#democracy

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#born #both #britain #british #circumstances

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#choose #democracy #free #get #man

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#autocracy #democracy #nation #place #taken

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. ↗

— Dan Rather

#democracy #despite #many #most #soviets

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. ↗

— Dan Rather

#democracy #fiercely #free #freedom #heart

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

#blunder #correct #democracy #mistakes #new

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#called #country #democracy #enough #enough people