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| When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. (Tombstone of Leonard Matlovich) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Vote your hopes, not your fears. (Tom Harkin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. (Edmund Burke) | [▲] | [▼] |
| And wrinkles, the d-d democrats, won't flatter. (Lord Byron) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.] (Taxile Delord) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. (Benjamin Disraeli) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. (Charles Fletcher Dole) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. (John Dryden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. (John Dryden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian-that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. (John Dryden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions-it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (John Dryden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. (James Russell Lowell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. (James Russell Lowell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house." (Lycurgus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. (Thomas Babington Macaulay) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. (Reinhold Niebuhr) | [▲] | [▼] |