Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, America Quotes, Democracy Quotes

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

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Democracy and violence can ill go together.

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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

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I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell you that if we just isolate ourselves from the Middle East and hope for the best, we will not address the conditions that had led young suiciders to get on airplanes to come and attack Amerika in the first place.

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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

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