If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if...

He’s coming here to strengthen a military regime that claims it is establishing democracy. Who is he trying to fool?

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power...

They shouldnt teach their immigrants’ kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it ony makes for trouble. Me and the United States is dissociating our alliance...

No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Wir sind das Volk!”Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die...

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?

Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The candidates also know we have experience of democracy, those of us who live here. We know what to listen for. We know if anything they’re saying makes sense. So they come here and they...

We expected that with electoral democracy there would be a trickle down of positive effects. That did not happen.

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of...

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

Der Endzweck des Staates ist […] im Grund die Freiheit.

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love...

Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics. Our great national leader is crippled?and there is no crisis. Power is passed quietly. Our enemies don’t stir. Our stock market barely moves....

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in...

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don’t talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds...

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

I was thinking about honour. It’s a thing that changes doesn’t it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we’d laugh. There must have been...

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular...

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

Democracy fascinates me.

And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve...

I really am a pessimist. I’ve always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It’s something essentially splendid because it’s not at all routine or automatic. Fascism...

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on...

Dalam jangka waktu lama, Indonesia hidup dalam bayangan feodalisme. Tetap neofeodalisme Soekarno lebih jahat dan lebih ganas.

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common...

Democracy is not here any more.

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don’t life or approve of.

The students had a ‘textbook definition’ understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Ainsi donc, en s’alliant à un pouvoir politique, la religion augmente sa puissance sur quelques-uns, et perd l’espérance de régner sur tous.