If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
THIS is why democracy doesn't work! Too much talking leads to not enough violence!
Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.