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“All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.”

Men Government Simple Democracy Ought Violent Despotism

Book:The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

Source: The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.”

People Ifs Years Interest Democracy Conditions Media Ought Fit Models Ideals Tests Western Abstract Conform Adopted Korea Singapore Philippines Taiwan Western Media

Author:Goh Chok Tong

“The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.”

“Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.”

Support Democracy Blood Ought Mere Veins Arteries

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.”

People Bigs Remember Fighting Hours Differences Knowing Democracy Generations Ought Vote Casts Making A Difference Ballots

Author:Ellen Goodman

“Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”

Thinking Trying Ideas States Democracy Ought Contracts New Ideas Federalist

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

Political Democracy Ought Asking Witty Voting Persist Democracies Have Election Day Voting And Democracy

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.”

Should Form Individual Enjoy Pleasure Democracy Ought Taste Advantage Expected Latter Republic Frugality

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”

Knows Happens Culture Process Democracy Our Lives Events Building Ought Election Ongoing Election Time

Author:Jim Hightower

“Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.”

Country Opportunity Enemy Democracy Ought Creating Hunts Isis Wilson Take Control Creating Opportunities

Author:Ted Cruz

“Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.”

Thinking Giving Individual Force Decision Democracy Ought Access Representatives Giving In Wikileaks

Author:Noam Chomsky

“So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.”

World Way Kind Democracy Theory Ought Achievement Improvement Formal Feudal System

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think.”

People Thinking Want Facts Democracy Ought Involved Election Presses Excuse Outrage Kgb

Author:James Carville

“There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].”

Knows Talking Democracy Issues Ought Campaigns Relevant Assault Kgb

Author:James Carville

“We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.”

Said Talking Democracy Ought Right Now Distraction Assault July

Author:James Carville

“I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.”

People Thinking Democracy Ought

Author:James Carville

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