#democracy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #democracy




Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.


Robert Bork


#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.


Barbara Boxer


#cause #democracy #example #gaining #just

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.


Paul Bremer


#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.


Hillary Clinton


#become #cynical #democracy #future #happen

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.


Antonio Villaraigosa


#call #called #come #democracy #duty

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless decree. These young smart alecks see it, and they immediately imagine some fatal result and come running to the rescue. They start trying to mend things, straighten things out, patch things up and untangle them. And so instead of using their energy to build their own vision of the future, instead of trying to put their irresponsible, destructive fantasies into action, our malcontents had to roll up their sleeves and start untangling what the minsters had knotted up. And there's always a lot of work to untangling! So they untangle and untangle, drenched in sweat, wearing their nerves to shreds, running around, patching things up here and there, and in all this rush and overwork, in this whirlwind, their fantasies slowly evaporate from their hot heads.


Ryszard Kapuściński


#imagination

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen


Louis Brandeis


#inspirational #politics #inspirational

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.


H.L. Mencken


#gullibility #public-opinion #intelligence

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#men

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.


Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


#religion #secularism #men