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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.