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• We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

  Blaise Pascal

  Freedom, Reason, Found

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• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Mean, Evil, Survival

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Eye, Ideas, Generations

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• Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Government, People

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• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Freedom, Blessing, Discipline

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Election, Parliament, Existence

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• We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Support

  "Cheney: 'Direct Threats Require Decisive Action'". Dick Cheney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Cologny, Switzerland, www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Struggle, Rights, Political

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China, gos.sbc.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

  Nick Lampson

  Taiwan, World, China

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• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Water, Wages

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Political

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Bars, Levels, Should

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Political Will, Europe, Needs

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

  Andre Maurois

  Freedom, Learning, Simple

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• I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Debate, Method, Promoting

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• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Art, Freedom, Political

  "Don't blame Alistair Darling. He's just the brush and bucket" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Military, Patriotic

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Democracies Have, Political, Literature

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• Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

  Nigel Rees

  Share

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• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  Brad Henry

  Education, Reading, Educated

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• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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