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Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children (Democracy Quotes)
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last (Democracy Quotes)
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy (Democracy Quotes)
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born (Democracy Quotes)
America’s Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world (Democracy Quotes)
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start (Democracy Quotes)
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy (Democracy Quotes)
Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat (Democracy Quotes)
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it’s the best system we have (Democracy Quotes)
Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while (Democracy Quotes)
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience (Democracy Quotes)
A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens (Democracy Quotes)
In democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism it’s your count that votes (Democracy Quotes)
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury (Democracy Quotes)
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen (Democracy Quotes)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard (Democracy Quotes)
Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy (Democracy Quotes)
Turkey shares Europe’s fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law (Democracy Quotes)
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges (Democracy Quotes)
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea (Democracy Quotes)
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race (Democracy Quotes)
The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era (Democracy Quotes)
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest (Democracy Quotes)
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses (Democracy Quotes)
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times (Democracy Quotes)
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy (Democracy Quotes)
Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried (Democracy Quotes)
I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy (Democracy Quotes)
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism (Democracy Quotes)
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy (Democracy Quotes)