#Democracy

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails."

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"

"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."

"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."

"Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations."

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."

"I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised."

"My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men."

"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena."

"The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden."

"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."

"He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?"as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?"