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Letter "D" » Democracy
«One has the right to be wrong in a democracy»
Author: Claude Pepper
| About:
Democracy
«Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos»
Author: Polybius
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, degenerated, degenerates, monarchies, monarchy, oligarchies, oligarchy, savage, The monarchy
«No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.»
«Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.»
«Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary»
«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.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
America,
Democracy,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
reclaiming, reclaims
«I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
institutions, purely, sooner or later
«I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.»
«Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
Now is the Time
«I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms»
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