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Letter "D" » Democracy
«A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Words
| Keywords:
democratic government, obligation
«Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!»
«Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.»
Author: Barber B. Conable, Jr.
| About:
Congress,
Democracy
| Keywords:
founding, Founding Fathers, intended, the founding
«Democracy demands an opposition party.»
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
«A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building»
«A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
associated, communicated, conjoint, form of government, mode, primarily
«A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
employment, government in, vulgar
«A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
cease, democracy, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive
«A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, fifty, Fifty one, forty-nine, forty, mob, mobs, Mob rule, nine, Nothing More, one percent, percent, take away
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