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Quotations by Subject: Democracy (24 quotes)

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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The world must be made safe for democracy.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), April 2, 1917
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.: Henry Commager (1902 - 1998)
The love of democracy is that of equality.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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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.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

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