#democracy

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. ↗

— John Negroponte

#arrived #back #before #briefing #civilian

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#end #itself #means #socialism

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#finding #insoluble #insoluble problems #problems #solutions

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#building #constitution #democracy #envy #fair

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. ↗

— Alice Paul

#democracy #denied #million #million women #right

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. ↗

— Mike Pence

#decades #democracy #deserve #good #good people

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#dictatorship #impossible #made #television #unbearable

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democracy #east #equal #equal rights

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#born #both #britain #british #circumstances

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form