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Letter "D" » Democracy
«The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual»
«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«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 principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people»
«The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| About:
Democracy,
Politics,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bastardized, genuflect, genuflected, like royalty, Office of, royalties, royalty, spit, The Office
«The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections»
«The motive power of democracy is love»
«The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
community, contribute, cooperatively, democratic, motivating, T, theory of, way of life
«The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Democracy,
Ideas
| Keywords:
A level, be on, democratic, every other, hindrance, hindrances, level
«The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.»
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