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- If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
- Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - )
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
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