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Letter "D" » democratic
«There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic
«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.»
Author: Clive Barnes
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
available, culture, democratic, entirely, governed, television, terrifies, terrifying
«Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| About:
Interest
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democratic, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, requirement, the town, totally, town
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, democratic state, essence, fascism, group, groups of people, group of people, individual liberty, ownership, private, private ownership, strong point, tolerate
«The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic, functions, performed
«The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
democratic, demonstrate, emulation, enhance, enhancing, lands
«Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
An example, An example of, democratic, genuinely, heighten, heightened, heightening, heightens, humane, Humane Society, radical, Radical Change
«Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
collective, democratic, distinctions, guilt, odious, unfashionable
«The basis of a democratic state is liberty.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic state
«There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.»
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