D Quotes
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“Democratic and radical impulses defined the Revolutionary generation that founded America. The egalitarian ideals of abolitionist activists, especially [Underground Railroad] agents, were perceived as a tribute to the country's founding generation. Promoters of the liberty lines echoed the sentiments of American's founders: impassioned opposition to tyranny and oppression....To that end, radicals advocated civil disobedience, especially in regard to fugitive slaves. Thus the [Underground Railroad] was a full-fledged grassroots resistance movement, representing the true national goals of democracy and liberty.”
Source: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
“Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'”
“Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.”
“Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.”
“Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.”
“Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.”
“Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.”
“Democratic government is no longer an exercise of arbitrary authority from one above, but is an organization for public service of the people themselves--or will be when it is really attained.
In this change government ceases to be compulsion, and becomes agreement; law ceases to be authority and becomes co-ordination. When we learn the rules of whist or chess we do not obey them because we fear to be punished if we don't, but because we want to play the game.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they were after the Second World War. There were fewer governments then, but they actually had more political power.”
“Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.”
“Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.”
“Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.”
“Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.”
“Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.”
“Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.”
“Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.”
Source: Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government
“Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.”
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
“Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.”
“Democratic Party are totalitarian, authoritarians who - when you get right down to it - are showing everybody they have no respect for the democratic process, and they want no part of it. They are trying to undermine it. This isn't insecurity. This is dangerous!”
“Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people.”
“Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.”
“Democratic Party not only elected virtually all public officials in the region and therefore commanded the admiration and participation of high-status people, it symbolized the abiding principle of right-thinking citizens—white supremacy. Even after Truman's integrationist policies drove Dixiecrats into revolt in 1948 Southern Democrats still saw their party in the 1950s as arguably committed to segregation by virtue of the power that the Southern delegation wielded within it. Goldwater's candidacy, the enfranchisement of black Democrats, Wallace's Independent candidacy in 1968, and the endorsement of Nixon by many Southern Democratic leaders in 1972 gradually chipped away at the middle-class respectability of the Democratic Party. When conservative Christian leaders became outspoken Republicans in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Democratic Party was routinely castigated as the party of secular humanists. The allure of respectability eventually redounded to the benefit of Republicans, as their ranks were augmented by evangelical and fundamentalist Christians.”
Source: Partisan Hearts and Minds
“Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.”
“Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.”
“Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.”
“Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry came down pretty hard on fellow candidate Howard Dean this weekend. After Dean misspoke several times, Kerry said you can't misspeak 15 times in a week and be president. And Bush said, 'You can't'?”
“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
“Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.”
“Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.”
“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”
“Democratic Senator Harry Reid is expected to make a full recovery after he was exercising with a resistance band that snapped, causing him to fall. The good news is he's fine. The bad news is there's no video of it.”
“Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, who ultimately became known as a mainstream Democratic leader in the 1970s and 1980s, and served as a mentor to Hillary Clinton, was an 'exalted cyclops' of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Source: How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump
“Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.”
“Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.”
“Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.”
“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.”
“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.”
“Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.”
“Democratic State has an obligation to protect the weak; anarchy thrives on the weakness and helplessness of the weak. A democratic State that does not protect the weak from unlawful coercion and from hunger invites its own doom and creates space for anarchy.”
“Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“Democratie en multicultuur zijn niet verzoenbaar. Een democratie functioneert enkel binnen een homogene volksgemeenschap zoniet speelt door de omvolking de macht van het getal tegen de autochtone bevolking. In de steden zijn we al een minderheid en betekent de democratie onze ondergang!”
Source: Omvolking, de grote vervanging
“Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.”
Source: The Menace of the Herd: Or Procrustes at Large
“Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.”
“Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.”
“Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.”
“Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.”
“Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.”
Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook
“Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.”