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Letter "D" » Democracy
«Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.»
«I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.»
Author: Alexander Woollcott
| About:
Democracy
«If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.»
«Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists took the spotlight. And everywhere, progressives, liberals, and moderates either fell in behind them, or retreated into the shadows . . . We have seen the consequences.»
«In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge»
Author: Robert Bork
| About:
Democracy,
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
be given, constitutional, framer, Framers, legislator
«Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some»
«Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Parliament
| Keywords:
parliament, parliaments, whores
«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.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Democracy,
Helping People,
Politicians,
Power,
Washington
| Keywords:
Amasses, amassing
«If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.»
«Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
free speech, permitted
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