Mike Huckabee Quotes

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

The army is a poor school for democracy.

We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work. One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue.

We have been with democracy for over 200 years and from time to time we find that we have not perfected it.

We need to learn democracy. Everything takes time.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

Our age, marked by restless activity in almost all departments of knowledge, and by struggles and aspirations before the unknown, is stamped by no characteristic more deeply than by a desire to establish or extend freedom in the political societies of mankind.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

in countries where the ability to read and write has been recently acquired or where the people have had no long experience in governing themselves on the basis of their own thinking, it is easy for demagogues to arise and prostitute the mind of the common man to their own base ends

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But once you got freedom from, then you need freedom to. Freedom from is about destroying things. Freedom to is about constructing things, constructing the rule of law.

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.