Democratic Quotes - Page 6

• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Government, Hymns, People

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• Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hymns, America, Leader

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• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

  James Carville

  Party, Teaching, Church

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• The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Long, Reform, Lists

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• I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Party, Cold

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• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  Douglas Hurd

  Iraq, Spurs, Might

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• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Peace, War

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.268, Penguin

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?

  Ahmed Ali

  Mean, Doe, Ifs

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Essence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers

  Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Years, Hymns

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• We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

  Al Gore

  Party, America, Needs

  "Al Gore endorses Howard Dean". "Wolf Blitzer Reports", cnn.com. December 09, 2003.

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• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Helen Suzman

  Inspirational, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

  Todd Akin

  Party, People, Democracy

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• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Political, Taxation

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

  Pete McCloskey

  Party, Hands, Hymns

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• Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

  Evan Sayet

  Party, Bills, Pumpkin

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• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  Ed Gillespie

  Party, Election, Angry

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• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  Patrick Murray

  Party, Names, Political

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• Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

  Adam Rich

  Hymns, Band, Way

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• We are a strong democratic country.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Strong, Hymns

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