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“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”

Men Real Dream Dies Loses Democracy Greatness Source Submit

Author:Edwin Land

“I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.”

Ifs War Loses Democracy Information Lips Access Arguing

Author:Ted Gup

“In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.”

Next Winning Process Loses Democracy Election Learning Process The Next One

Author:Salman Khurshid

“I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.”

Years Helping Loses Support Democracy Greater Years Ago Vote Majority Active Proportion Opposition Minorities Margins

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”

Government Political Fighting Lost Loses Democracy Confidence Integrity Indispensable Lost Faith

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.”

People Problem Loses Levels Democracy Higher Succeed Authority Slave Problem Solving Delegates Grassroots

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.”

Way Long Values Culture Nations Loses Democracy Citizens Absolutes Absence Granted Advancement Transcendent

Author:Carl F. H. Henry

“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.”

May Ideas Enough Loses Democracy Property

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Ifs Nations Loses Democracy Sticks Republic Dictatorship Imperialism

Author:Chalmers Johnson

“Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.”

Political Loses Democracy Figures Corporate Cash Political Systems

Author:Molly Ivins

“We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.”

Given Black Loses Poor Democracy Color Hardest Brown Our Society Stakes

Author:Charles Rangel

“Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.”

“I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”

Sometimes Winning Loses Support Democracy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.”

Thinking Believe Reason Running School America Loses Party Opinion Gone Democracy Movement Republican Conservative Tea Reason Why Midst Establishment Elites Tanks Tea Party

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.”

Thinking Problem Games Loses Ability Class Democracy Losing Solve Mercenary Almost Over

Author:Bill Moyers