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“American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.”
Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.
Source: Collected Works
“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.”
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
Source: Collected Works
“Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: India of My Dreams
“Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.”
“Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: India of My Dreams
“Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words
“The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.”
Source: To the Perplexed
“A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.”
Source: Collected Works
“It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.”
“For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.”
“Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.”