Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Hagel

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Chuck Hagel

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Amos Oz

All of my novels are democracies.

Anthony Eden

Drift is the demon of democracy.

Annette Lu

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Angela Davis

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Andre Malraux

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Ambrose Bierce

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Anthony Kennedy

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

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.

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.

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.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brigitte Bardot

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Brad Pitt

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Barbara Boxer

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Benjamin Franklin

What good shall I do this day?

Aung San Suu Kyi

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

Brad Henry

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Jamie Dimon

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Dennis Chavez

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.