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• If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Democracy, Life

  Tags in Freedom

• You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Democracy

• I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Topics in Democracy

• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Democracy

• Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Like, Freedom

• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we’re all partially different – it’s no good imposing systems on people that it doesn’t suit.

  Damian Lewis

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Imposing

• If we don’t have an informed electorate we don’t have a democracy. So I don’t care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I’m just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

  Jim Lehrer

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy cannot be practiced just by holding elections. It means the knowledgeable entire people can make their own choice without suppression and restrictions.

  Thein Sein

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Topics in Democracy

• In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that’s what I do, even if it displeases.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Oneself, Express

• Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

  Serj Tankian

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Honest, Sometimes

• You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Democracy

• I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Over

• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Television