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Letter "D" » Democracy
«Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner»
«Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Democracy,
Education
| Keywords:
cornerstone, cornerstones, development, human development, human right, immense, sustainable, transform
«Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.»
Author: Meg Greenfield
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
in practice, in principle, objections, stiff, stiffest, stiffing
«Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans stuff 'em and hang 'em on the wall.»
Author: Sean Donlon
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
bugs, Democrats, eating away, eat away, employ, exterminator, exterminators, give away, Republicans, step on, the fish, The Wall, wear away
«Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
reforming, regenerate, regenerated, regenerates, regenerating
«El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Country,
Democracy
| Keywords:
conversations, El Salvador, Salvador, Salvadoran, Salvadorans, surprising
«Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Competence,
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, by election, corrupt, election, election of, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
indiscriminately, The Organization
«Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders»
«Democracy passes into despotism.»
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