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"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." Abraham Lincoln 4.8365 average rating Rate this Quote
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy." Irish Blessing 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." Irving Kristol 4.2222 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." Lyndon Baines Johnson 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." George Bernard Shaw 3.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail." Author Unknown 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse." Jawaharial Nehru 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking." Clement Attlee 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 3.5833 average rating Rate this Quote
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." Walt Whitman 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." Aristotle 4.6977 average rating Rate this Quote
"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr. 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson 4.0769 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy." (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" Lyndon Baines Johnson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." Reinhold Niebuhr 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." Will Rogers Rate this Quote
"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." Noam Chomsky 4.3182 average rating Rate this Quote
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