Quotes with democratic

  • It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
  • It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
  • With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
  • Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
  • The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
  • Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
  • For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • A. Philip Randolph A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Ben Nelson A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
    Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006 [2]
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Ben Klassen CREATIVITY first of all aims to achieve a REVOLUTION OF VALUES THROUGH RELIGION, therefore it completely and categorically rejects the Judeo-Christian-democratic-Marxist-liberal-feminist values of today and supplants them with new and basic values of which RACE IS THE FOUNDATION.
    The Little White Book The Essence of a Creator, essence 6
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
    Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency (2015)
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Adam Clymer Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Salvador Dali Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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