#racy

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#attention #because #command #education #finances

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#actual #any #aristocracy #cannot #decree

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#fatalism #like #never #party #passive

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#democracy #grave #i #press #take

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#expresses #i #idea #master #slave

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#electoral #electoral process #faith #must #our

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#democracy #development #economic #environmental #global

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known. ↗

— Bill Lipinski

#heard #known #live #make #need

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ballots #charters #democracy #direct #illiterate