Quotes with democratic

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  • Victor Hugo My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Al Gore Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bayard Rustin Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Anna Lindh Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
    Clive Barnes
    English writer and critic (1927 - 2008)
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  • Woodrow Wilson That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bobby Darin The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Billy Sunday The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Bernie Sanders The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Al Spalding The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Beeban Kidron The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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