Top Democracy Quotes
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
Kim Dae Jung
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
William Greider
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick 
87% of people like this quote
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
82% of people like this quote
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
Kim Dae Jung
81% of people like this quote
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
78% of people like this quote
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
William Greider
77% of people like this quote
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
John J. Sweeney
74% of people like this quote
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
73% of people like this quote
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
Stanley Fish
73% of people like this quote
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
Bill Lipinski
72% of people like this quote
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