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The highest measure of democracy is neither the ‘extent of freedom’ nor the ‘extent of equality’, but rather the highest measure of participation.
ALAIN DE BENOIST

Democracy Equality Extent Freedom Higher Measure Neither Participation
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Culture Democracy Different
A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
BENJAMIN RUSH

Democracy Government Simple
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
BILL MOYERS

Country Democracy Independent
If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it’s probably not broad enough a coalition.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Community Democracy Enough
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
BILL MOYERS

Democracy Economy Greed
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].
ALAN BLINDER

Believe Democracy Formation Input Opinion Policy Politician Public Respond
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
ABDOULAYE WADE

Constructed Democracy Edifice Freedom Snapping
We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
AGNES MEYER DRISCOLL

Democracy Forgotten Live Thing Thinking Women
We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others.
BERNARD LEWIS

Assuming Country Democracy Good Mistake Other
Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWE

Choices Delirium Democracy
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Democracy Method Problem
So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.
AI-JEN POO

Attack Democracy Fundamental General Healthy Lot Many Thing Under Work
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
ABDURRAHMAN WAHID

Democracy God Move Moving Pressure Resorting Student Violence
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
CORNEL WEST

Democracy Majority Rights
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
ALICE PAUL

Democracy Government Right Vote Women
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Democracy Politics Power
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
ALAN BULLOCK

Committee Democracy Make Speech Work
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD

Democracy Governement Oppression Right
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
BILL VAUGHAN

Building Up Country Democracy
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
AESCHINES

Assured Citizen Constitution Democracy Guard Law Person Protection Suspect Tyrant
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.
AESCHINES

Acknowledged Autocracy Democracy Government Law Oligarchy World
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Country Democracy Liberty People
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERS

Block Democracy Long
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMES

Democracy Genius People
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Democracy Home Strong Symbol Unique
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Democracy Men Passion

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