#democracy

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#democracy #development #indeed #into #land

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#crusade #democracy #forth #going #imperialism

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#combine #commitment #democracy #essential #skepticism

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cannot #cured #democracy #engine #envy

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system? ↗

— Tim Allen

#combine #democracy #each #either #get

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting