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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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

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Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

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

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The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

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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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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

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Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

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Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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

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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

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