Democracy

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DEMOCRACY: If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America. (Emma Goldman, Russian-American writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, 1869-1940)
DEMOCRACY: If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America. (Unknown Source)
DEMOCRACY: The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. (Unknown Source)
DEMOCRACY: Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. (Aharon Barak, Israeli law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Born 1936)
DEMOCRACY: The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities. (Lucius D. Clay, U.S. senior office of the U.S. Army, known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II.. 1898-1978)
DEMOCRACY: Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)
DEMOCRACY: Free and fair elections are a necessary - but not sufficient - condition of democracy. (Uwe Bott, U.S. international political-economic consultant, Born 1956)
DEMOCRACY: Democracy is a system of constructive contention. (Marshall Ganz, U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)
DEMOCRACY: . . . while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
DEMOCRACY: The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functionsperformed by private citizens. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
DEMOCRACY: We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of few. But we can't have both. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1856-1941)
DEMOCRACY: We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1856-1941)