This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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.
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
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.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.
Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
