The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Government is best which governs least
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
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.
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?
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.
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
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