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

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.