Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Quotes

Show me a country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country is which there is no liberty.

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

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

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

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.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

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

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.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 still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.

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

Allow peaceful demonstrations and the next thing you know people will want a voice in running things.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.