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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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Alfred M. Gray 
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Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
Juan Bosch
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.
Hosni Mubarak
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Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Arlen Specter
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