#democracy

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. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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Democracy without morality is impossible. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#impossible #morality #without

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

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Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#candor #democracy #hypocrisy #important #place

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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