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Tag Name "Democracies" (111)

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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
Romano Prodi
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Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
Asif Ali Zardari
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. Powe
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Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.
Damon Keith
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Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.
Amos Elon
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Democracies don't go to war.
Manmohan Singh
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Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.
William J. Clinton
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Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.
Richard A. Clarke
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
Samantha Power
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Jalal Talabani
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Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
James Madison
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Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.
T.R. Reid
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For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
Laura Bush
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If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.
Timothy Garton Ash
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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
Lionel Jospin
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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
Tom Tancredo
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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
Manmohan Singh
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I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.
Mark Danner
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
Walid Jumblatt
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Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Michael Shermer
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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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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
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