Quotes 161 till 180 of 230.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
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The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83 -
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
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The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
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The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
Ghana, 11 July 2009 -
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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