My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from it...
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
