Democracy Quotes

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Politician, Founding Father

“If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.”

Democracy Majority Minorities

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”

Men Son Democracy

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Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

“The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.”

Democracy Bullets

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H. G. Wells

Writer

“Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.”

Military Democracy

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Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

“The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.”

Exercise Democracy True Leader

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Sinclair Lewis

Novelist

“On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.”

Democracy Ordinary Democracies Have

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Robin Williams

Actor, Comedian

“To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.”

Fun Democracy Defense

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Steve King

Politician

“Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.”

Government Father Democracy

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Rowan Williams

Theologian

“Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.”

Media Communication Democracy

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