John le Carre Quotes

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

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

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

Nobody expects democracy to be efficient--individual freedom was the primary purpose of our founders - but it should function at least a little

Where nationalism is the main issue, the demand for democracy always takes second place.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

Democracy in America is more than a two minute sound byte.

The democracy of the Western countries is the predecessor of Marxism, which would be unthinkable without democracy.