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• The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.

  Edward Dowling

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Self Respect

  Tags in Solidarity

• America now stands as the world’s foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Democracy, Vision

  Tags in Human Rights

• Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Timelessness, Youthful

• Any leader who doesn’t support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity, Leadership

• The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Democracy

• As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is not being, it is becoming. It is easily lost, but never finally won.

  William H. Hastie

  Topics in Democracy

• Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Petriotism

• I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Washington, Politicians, Helping Other People

• As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Topics in Democracy

• Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Democracy, God

• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Topics in Democracy

• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizenship

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  Karen Armstrong

  Topics in Democracy

• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Defense