#democracy

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#blunder #correct #democracy #mistakes #new

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#best #democracy #educate #give #majority

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#application #democracy #love #to love

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#advantage #away #certain #china #concepts

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. ↗

— David McCullough

#full #history #know #our #participant

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#between #catcher #catcher in the rye #cliff #democracy

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#art #cage #circus #democracy #monkey