Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.
Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice.
The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.
