Democratic Government Quotes - Page 2

• Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Father, Government, Long

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1977). “Sailor Historian: The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison”

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• As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Government, People

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• As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, America, Long

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.

  Gordon Tullock

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley (2005). “The economics of politics”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Long, People

  "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.

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• To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

  John Drinkwater

  Mean, Government, People

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Home, Government, Hands

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• Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

  Vaclav Havel

  Government, Law, Moral

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• Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Party, Independent

  "The 'Silently' Creeping Famine" by Alemayehu G. Mariam, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2010.

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• When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  Harry S. Truman

  Father, Government, Secret

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• I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Government, Constitution Of The United States

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.125, Heyday

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• A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, White, People

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Government, Law

  Barack Obama's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

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• I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.

  Leonard Peltier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Well, we're [USA] not looking for an ally; what we're looking for is a stable, democratic government that is not beholden to anyone in the region and is able to be secure within its own borders and have its own policy.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Usa, Allies

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

  Salvador Dali

  Government, Europe, Habit

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 2, 1964.

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• Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they were after the Second World War. There were fewer governments then, but they actually had more political power.

  Mary Robinson

  Powerful, War, Government

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.

  Mary Robinson

  Real, Latin, Government

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Government, Revolutionary, Democratic

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• Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

  Thucydides

  Clever, Military, Adventure

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.

  Costa-Gavras

  Strong, Latin, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

  Ishmael

  Government, Good Things, Force

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• Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

  Camille Desmoulins

  Men, Names, France

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• The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Memories, Government, Israel

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• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Government, America

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