Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

Blaise Pascal

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Diane Ravitch

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy

Democritus

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Joseph Nye

She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.

Archibald MacLeish

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Romano Prodi

This proposal must simply be rejected. There are moments in the history of nations and parliaments in which nothing less than democracy is at stake.

Bashar al-Assad

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

Augusto Pinochet

Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,

Edward Abbey

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Edward Abbey

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Aristotle

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Aristotle

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

David K. Shipler

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Leah Ward Sears

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

Kerry Washington

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

We had no choice. We did what any democracy would have done.

Terry Eagleton

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Ayad Allawi

We are adamant that democracy is going to prevail, it's going to win in iraq and this is where terrorists are trying to hurt us and trying to undermine us.

We are nearing three months on strike. We have a duty to send this to the membership for a vote. It's democracy at its finest. The strikers at Boeing have the final say on whether to keep striking or not.

Susan Glaspell

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Jane Addams

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Jane Addams

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

But what I have to say to people who might come forward is that one of the great things about our democracy is freedom of the press.

But after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about, is people will have differences of opinion.

Corazon Aquino

Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.