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“The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.”

Political Culture Religious Struggle Democracy Economic Fronts Aspect International Educational Artistic Democracies Have

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.”

Democracy Elements Definitions Democracies Have

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”

Able Half Enemy Democracy Capitalism Advantage Weak Other Half Democracies Have One Half

Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy

“Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.”

Effort Democracy Wall Backwards Democracies Have

Author:John McCain

“I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Democracy India Commodity Neglected Democracies Have

Author:Amartya Sen

“So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.”

Kind Made Facts Political Certain Democracy Identity Built Violent Democracies Have Hardened Antagonism

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”

Evil Force Party Democracy Succeed Election Majority Tyranny Fraud Hype Democracies Have Voting And Democracy Majority Rule Tyranny Of The Majority Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Majority And Minority

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Has Beens Political Opportunity Grows Rooms Democracy Worst Battle Exciting Constant Active Always Trying Better Ways Political Systems Democracies Have

Author:Adrian Grenier

“We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.”

Knows Needs Mean Country Democracy Wise Congress Parliament Percentages Outrage Democracies Have

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.”

Has Beens Country Political Interest Democracy Currents Corporate Usa Other Countries Political Systems Democracies Have

Author:Neil Young

“Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.”

Ifs World Has Beens Practice Democracy Theory Accepted Around The World Communism Fascism Democracies Have Liberal Democracy

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.”

Men World Firsts Believe Two States Liberty Vision Principles Democracy Equal Eternal Mass Blessed Spokes Locked Disputes Loving God Whim Democracies Have Opium

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.”

Years Democracy Democracies Have

Author:Noam Chomsky

“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.”

War Ends Helping Evil Democracy Mankind Century Cold Communism Fascism Cold War 20th Century Apartheid Nazism Democracies Have Isms

Author:Jack Kemp

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