#racy

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#country #democracy #freedom #gave #greatest

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. ↗

— John Simon

#decide #democracy #encourages #ignorant #majority

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. ↗

— George Soros

#america #because #chose #civil #civil liberties

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

— James Russell Lowell

#always #been #democracy #effective #i

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#air #airport #any #back #breathe

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#democracy #improved #means #perfection #state

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#democracy #find #great #our #practicing

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#expression #freedom #freedom of expression #functioning #i

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#die #disease #inflicts #routine #usually

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. ↗

— Chris Patten

#everybody #including #jerks #represented #right