Quotes of: Democracies Keyword

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Eddie Vedder

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

Alberto Fujimori

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

Alex Gibney

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Anthony Kennedy

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

Amit Kalantri

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Alexis Tsipras

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

Antonio Tabucchi

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

Brigitte Bardot

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Benjamin Disraeli

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Vaclav Klaus

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

William Bennett

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

J. B. Priestley

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstance...

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

So I asked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ he said. ‘Respect for other religions lies at the heart of Islam. And the principle of democracy is even anchored in Islam.’ When I looked...

From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their view that, because human race had evolve...

Francis A. Schaeffer

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

Mohamed ElBaradei