Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democracy’ and imagining that any country can adopt ...

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new p...

The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times

DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman's so...

Summer of '49

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of em...

Listen, Little Man!

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around Amer...

Malcolm X

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

Charles B. Rangel

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Melissa Bean

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Peter Fenn

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

Rickie Lee Jones

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Weymouth

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

Louis Susman

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Naomi Klein

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Gary Ackerman

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

Howard Coble