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Tag Name "Democracy" (2735)

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
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In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.
Jay Leno
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Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Axel Munthe
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The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle
Robert Sobukwe
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Vissarion Belinsky
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William Bennett
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The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.
Alexander Herzen
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If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
Alexander Hamilton
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As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.
Barack Obama
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To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Alexander Haig
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
Alex Salmond
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
William Eldridge Odom
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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