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“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.”

Thinking Firsts Forget Democracy Propaganda Republic Slogans Wilson

Author:Robert W. Welch, Jr.

“Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.”

Facts Democracy Promise Screens Phrases Slogans Solemn Bourgeois Inferiority Pompous Freedom And Equality

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.”

Doe Self Democracy Atheism Politician Seeking Slogans Persuasive

Book:Christmas Holiday

Source: Christmas Holiday

“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.”

Democracy Speech Temporary Free Speech Slogans Democratization Glasnost

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.”

Firsts Democracy India Election Congress Articles Slogans Secularism Bjp

Author:Narendra Modi

“The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.”

Should Democracy Accepted Unemployment Slogans

Author:Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook