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No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.


Nick Clooney


#cannot #democracy #how #impose #insurgents

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.


Lincoln Chafee


#between #close #created #deep #democracy

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


#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.


Winston Churchill


#against #argument #average #best #conversation

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.


Helen Clark


#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.


Gustave Flaubert


#bourgeois #democracy #dream #level #proletarian

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.


John Cusack


#blindly #democracy #duty #feel #getting

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.


Dave Brubeck


#constitution #democracy #discipline #disciplined #freedom

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.


Peter Ustinov


#democracy #faith #nature #our #restoring

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny






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