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«There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic
«The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.»
«The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.»
«There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi»
«The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Democracy
| Keywords:
ambush, ambushes, apathy, assassination, assassinations, Death of, extinction, undernourishment
«The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
democratic, demonstrate, emulation, enhance, enhancing, lands
«The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Weapons
| Keywords:
dictatorship, openness, secrecy
«The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Courage,
Democracy,
History,
Senators,
The Senate
| Keywords:
profiles, profiling, senators
«There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Democracy,
Revolution,
Society
| Keywords:
contained, epoch, epochs, insecure, measure up, primitive, revolutionary, Seeds, The Seeds
«The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
argument, average, averages, conversation, democracy, five, good argument, minute, on average, on the average, voter
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