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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

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