Julia Gillard Quotes

Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

We cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government, for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

[A] government can be expected to be enjoyed no longer than while its Citizens continue virtuous and while the majority of the People, through the advantage of a proper, early education possess sufficient knowledge to enable them to understand and pursue their best interests.

Being a citizen in a democracy involves more than just voting. It means being involved for the common whole.