Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

H. L. Mencken

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

GG Allin

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

Terry McAuliffe

If he were just another Republican with a book, he wouldn't sell any. But a Democrat out whacking Democrats sells books,

Michael Hirst

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Riordan Roett

I don't see how we can be opposed to that if it helps stabilize democratic systems.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Howard Berman

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Isaac Asimov

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Elon Musk

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Irving Babbitt

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Irving Babbitt

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

He's very talented and very bright, but I've rarely seen him deviate from the Democratic Party line. ... He's very effective for his side of the aisle, and if it's a partisan issue, he typically won't back down.

Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Neal A. Maxwell

There is no democracy of facts.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Nelson Mandela

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.