#democracy

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. ↗

— Sam Shepard

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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

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I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. ↗

— Ron Silver

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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. ↗

— Serj Tankian

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

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