One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.
The motive power of democracy is love.
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
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 must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
