Walter Lippmann Quotes

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

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

Oppositions clean and purify those in office and we in the opposition are in fact the detergents of democracy.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

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

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Democracy takes time. Dictatorship is quicker, but too many people get shot.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

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

Democratic elements in a society by their very nature feel that they have to give their religious fundamentalist opposition freedom of expression and action, a handicap from which their fundamentalist opponents do not suffer.

Democracy is about opposition.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

God Bless democracy. I approve of it highly. I suffer from it greatly.

Taiwan is democratic.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

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

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

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.