#democracy

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. ↗

— Olof Palme

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I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that. ↗

— Ron Davies

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ↗

— Plato

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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

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Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. ↗

— Keith Preston

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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. ↗

— Sam Shepard

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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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