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  • A democracy based on fear is not a democracy.†   (source)
  • But tell me, Alexander: What are we to make of his assertion that democracy is particularly suited to industry?†   (source)
  • This isn't some libertarian mistrust of government policy, which is healthy in any democracy.†   (source)
  • I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.†   (source)
  • A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy, and each of the dead had a voice, and an opinion as to whether the living child should be allowed to stay, and they were each determined to be heard, that night.†   (source)
  • Before that, our country believed in freedom and democracy and equality for all.†   (source)
  • I THOUGHT THIS WAS A DEMOCRACY.†   (source)
  • I mean, I fell in love with what he represented to me, a professor who served biscuits to a servant, smiled at her, and admitted her to the broad democracy of his joking, even when she didn't understand it.†   (source)
  • Democracy is a wonderful institution.†   (source)
  • In our free democracy, even fighting for its life, the truth will out.†   (source)
  • High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship—nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state.†   (source)
  • The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.†   (source)
  • …morphs I knew I ought to flush; and a snarl of packing tape into which I'd cut, painstakingly, with an X-Acto knife, twenty minutes of delicate work, pulse throbbing in my fingertips, terrified of going in too hard and nicking the painting by mistake, finally getting the side open, peeling the tape off strip by strip by careful strip, with trembling hands: only to find—sandwiched in cardboard and wrapped with newspaper — a scribbled-up Civics workbook (Democracy, Diversity, and You!†   (source)
  • Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy.†   (source)
  • But even more significantly, I saw the expedition as a powerful symbol of a young nation trying to unify itself and move toward democracy, trying to recover from its past.†   (source)
  • Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.†   (source)
  • It was the beginning of a whirlwind tour and another in the series of awards we received for "bravery and significant contributions to democracy."†   (source)
  • I never really believed the Iraqis would turn the country into a truly functioning democracy, but I thought at one point that there was a chance.†   (source)
  • That is what we call Democracy.†   (source)
  • Who decided that we are a happylittle democracy?†   (source)
  • Thus Architecture died in the land of the free and the home of the brave—in a land declaring its fervid democracy, its inventiveness, its resourcefulness, its unique daring, enterprise and progress.†   (source)
  • We're lucky to have been born and raised in a democracy, but one that is always undergoing improvements.†   (source)
  • And they didn't want a constitutional democracy.†   (source)
  • The hardy, independent farmers whom Thomas Jefferson considered the bedrock of American democracy are a truly vanishing breed.†   (source)
  • Luckily for all us backers of western democracy, Mr. Patterson, our principal, is a man of justice and vision and knows—though he would never say it—that Mautz is a wart on the butt of humanity.†   (source)
  • Yes, everybody ready for rebuilding and democracy and the like.†   (source)
  • A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.†   (source)
  • The way I see it, England's a democracy, and we in this village have suffered as much as anyone fighting to keep it that way.†   (source)
  • "So you're saying that even if Clarke is innocent, it'd be worth it to let her die in order to keep democracy alive?"†   (source)
  • Gradually a democracy evolved, with popular assemblies and courts of law.†   (source)
  • She says this country hasn't voted for anything in twenty-six years and it's only these silly little elections that keep the faint memory of a democracy going.†   (source)
  • Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.†   (source)
  • His prescription for curing Upper Silesia was "full and unlimited democracy."†   (source)
  • Democracy was going to be introduced, the threat of nuclear war was over, and the Bolsheviks would turn into regular little capitalists overnight.†   (source)
  • And if you think having Problems in American Democracy is a fun way to end the day, you need a snug-fitting straitjacket.†   (source)
  • Everything the way it ought to be in a democracy; that's us"), but, of course, class distinctions are as clearly observed, and as clearly observable, as in any other human hive.†   (source)
  • It was democracy in its purest form.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid we inspired the Mayflower Compact, started all that business about rights and democracy in America, blah, blah, blah."†   (source)
  • On this Tuesday evening, as on most, the meeting had drawn a small group with city business to transact and a larger group of the usual cranks and conspiracy theorists who had come to complain about slights from neighbors, disrespected property lines, and in one case, the threat that electronic voting machines posed to the institution of democracy worldwide.†   (source)
  • This is democracy in action.†   (source)
  • Most books put forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation.†   (source)
  • They exist in all nations, even here in America, this so-called democracy.†   (source)
  • As an exercise in outraged democracy, would 34 million of my fellow citizens please join me in sending one dollar each to the US Committee for UNFPA?†   (source)
  • Now that was democracy for you, thought Puller.†   (source)
  • He had overseen the drafting of a constitution in 1964, which turned Afghanistan into a democracy, offering universal suffrage and emancipating women.†   (source)
  • With the attention we are paying to advancing democracy abroad, we ought not neglect it at home.†   (source)
  • A thousand people -- in America, a great country, the greatest democracy, the most generous of all new nations in modern history.†   (source)
  • The Western "plate" will be the cream of American democracy and mass-production: in voluntary manpower; in technology, training, and industrial support.†   (source)
  • She was no doubt keeping the home fires burning and shouting "Democracy" to keep the enemy at bay.†   (source)
  • He was astute enough to be the first to call the left "the enemy of democracy," never suspecting that years later that would be the slogan of the dictatorship.†   (source)
  • 'In a democracy, the government is the people,' Milo explained.†   (source)
  • Elysia is a democracy, Vladimir Tod.†   (source)
  • The dictatorship of the proletariat or democracy?†   (source)
  • The university students, once great fans of the military "committee," were now split into those pushing for democracy and those who felt nothing short of an Albanian-style Marxism would do.†   (source)
  • Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.†   (source)
  • This is pure democracy.†   (source)
  • "To attempt to introduce discipline and subordination into a new army must always be a work of much difficulty," Reed wrote to his wife, "but where the principles of democracy so universally prevail, where so great an equality and so thorough a leveling spirit predominates, either no discipline can be established, or he who attempts it must become odious and detestable, a position which no one will choose."†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • Our sole objective, our sole purpose, is to protect the freedom of this nation's democracy.†   (source)
  • Famous actors and ordinary salesmen were buried here, rock-'n'-roll stars and reporters' families, side by side in the intimate democracy of death.†   (source)
  • This jug is an absolute democracy of atoms.†   (source)
  • The programme of the new Labour government: driving up standards in education; welfare reform; monetary and fiscal stability as the foundation of a modern economy; massive investment in our public services tied to the challenge of modernization; a huge programme of constitutional change; a new positive attitude to Europe -- it is a program of national renewal as ambitious as any undertaken in any western democracy in recent times.†   (source)
  • This is not a democracy," I said, understanding his fear but unable to do anything about it.†   (source)
  • He spoke of democracy and freedom, key themes throughout the cold war.†   (source)
  • Author Tom Shachtman argues that American democracy is threatened because we are so dumbing down our language that we risk sliding back to an oral culture, and an "entrenched power structure… benefits from a passive and largely inarticulate populace."†   (source)
  • It has values and ideals like freedom and democracy, ideals that I'm sure you would joke about, but which have been won with the blood of patriots.†   (source)
  • We call it democracy, Señor Calderon.†   (source)
  • A healthy democracy needs ways to bypass gatekeepers so we can communicate with one another directly, and perhaps even find common ground.†   (source)
  • To reject this outcome would destroy the basis of constitutional democracy, said Lincoln, and "fly to anarchy or to despotism."†   (source)
  • Yet it came, and now it has ended, resolved, as it must be resolved, through the honored institutions of our democracy.†   (source)
  • Pure Democracy Increases Violence†   (source)
  • In democracy.†   (source)
  • Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching?†   (source)
  • In a democracy, the strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny.†   (source)
  • A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers…. and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.'†   (source)
  • "Democracy time," Oscar said slowly.†   (source)
  • Further, it has shamed the United States in the eyes of the world and added to the shame of the South, already experiencing strained, tense and explosive race relations because white supremacy mob rule substitutes too often for democracy… .†   (source)
  • We'll show them that Democracy can get to the moon first.†   (source)
  • In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth.†   (source)
  • When you get away from the chiefs and the politicians there is a simple democracy about Africa: everyone is a villager.†   (source)
  • I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.†   (source)
  • This, I have always thought, is a remarkable thing about democracy.†   (source)
  • To put it poetically, civic institutions should be founded on democracy, they should grow up from below, like seedlings that are planted and take root in the soil.†   (source)
  • I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of Democracy.†   (source)
  • This may not always be easy, but it nevertheless is the essence of democracy, faith in the wisdom of the people and their views.†   (source)
  • We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • She had the undistinguished, dead-level appearante of South African white democracy.†   (source)
  • We have seen in our own time how a young democracy needs popular enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Democracy is something for a bygone era.†   (source)
  • Now we should do so in a new way, to restore democracy.†   (source)
  • Islam does not allow democracy or elections.†   (source)
  • My Aunt Martha—like many Americans—could become quite tyrannical in the defense of democracy.†   (source)
  • I say nothing when they exalt these military thugs who have made a mockery of our democracy.†   (source)
  • The government wanted to nail down democracy in the East.†   (source)
  • It's democracy with your voice, and your moxie.†   (source)
  • Instead of symbolizing democracy and freedom, going west meant getting cheap labor.†   (source)
  • But I didn't risk my life to bring democracy to Iraq.†   (source)
  • "You're the one who was so excited to bring democracy back to Earth.†   (source)
  • It was very hard to concentrate while my sisters were giving me a pop quiz on world democracy.†   (source)
  • He wanted to know if he could smoke, and you gave heem a speech on socialism and democracy.†   (source)
  • The third good constitutional form is what Aristotle called polity, which means democracy.†   (source)
  • We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, "If Benazir can die, nobody is safe."†   (source)
  • I doubt that President Reagan could be converted to democracy, either.†   (source)
  • If the CIA and them got rid of him, they did it for democracy.†   (source)
  • This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god.†   (source)
  • After Marx, the socialist movement split into two main streams, Social Democracy and Leninism.†   (source)
  • Demoxie was purer, was the only chance at direct democracy the world had ever known.†   (source)
  • In a democracy, Lumumba should have been allowed to live longer than two months as head of state.†   (source)
  • All their lip service to democracy, all their blatantly undemocratic behavior!†   (source)
  • A democracy can quickly develop into mob rule.†   (source)
  • He was a socialist who believed in democracy.†   (source)
  • There are people in DC who see us as the solution to making this a fully participatory democracy.†   (source)
  • Democracy is mandatory here! she said, and added, much to Mae's delight, Sharing is caring.†   (source)
  • We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press.†   (source)
  • By the same token, failing to hone the civic tools of democracy will have economic consequences.†   (source)
  • It was a declaration of his faith in reason and democracy that he had taken great pains over.†   (source)
  • But Canada is supposed to be a democracy.†   (source)
  • We thought military intervention was a necessary step for the return to a healthy democracy.†   (source)
  • The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome.†   (source)
  • Ah, Napoleon, I have yearned for such a man as you through all my years of planning for democracy.†   (source)
  • Another democracy, but with qualifications, as we shall see.†   (source)
  • Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people.†   (source)
  • From 1998 to 2001, he served as assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.†   (source)
  • Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (RFS).†   (source)
  • "Thank God for democracy," said Doc Peret.†   (source)
  • Then the United States invaded the country and set up a democracy.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan feat of popular democracy, the likes of which have since vanished from the culture.†   (source)
  • Second, a republic can have more citizens and a larger territory than a democracy.†   (source)
  • Not even a semblance of democracy or common sense in this latest racial persecution.†   (source)
  • I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all!†   (source)
  • An America that lives by a Constitution that inspires freedom and democracy around the world.†   (source)
  • "You're a police officer in a democracy.†   (source)
  • Hence, a republic controls the effects of faction better than a democracy.†   (source)
  • Preserving our democracy should be reason enough to promote civic learning.†   (source)
  • A simple, perfect democracy had never yet existed.†   (source)
  • In a democracy, all the citizens gather to exercise the legislative functions.†   (source)
  • Can you wonder that there is a deep bitterness among the Nisei who believed in democracy?†   (source)
  • This makes the white man fear democracy ….†   (source)
  • Out of this right he has built, laboriously and lovingly, something we reverently call democracy.†   (source)
  • Democracy has been good for business and for economic well-being.†   (source)
  • I mean, the police are necessary, and a democracy needs a political safeguard.†   (source)
  • Thank God we live in a democracy and not under an officially racist regime.†   (source)
  • I consider this office of central importance to Swedish democracy.†   (source)
  • A democracy must be small with a limited population.†   (source)
  • People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed.†   (source)
  • Observations made about a "democracy" are erroneously transferred to a "republic."†   (source)
  • This defines four restrictions on democracy.†   (source)
  • Consequently, a democracy must be small.†   (source)
  • A republic has been confused with a democracy.†   (source)
  • In short, to defend Swedish democracy against real or presumed anti-democratic threats.†   (source)
  • The terms "democracy" and "republic" are misused.†   (source)
  • We will examine the differences between a republic and a pure democracy.†   (source)
  • Democracy doesn't cure the harm caused by faction.†   (source)
  • Opponents have applied democracy theories to a republic.†   (source)
  • In a pure democracy, citizens assemble and administer the government in person.†   (source)
  • In a democracy, the people meet and administer the government in person.†   (source)
  • Therefore, pure democracies are always turbulent.†   (source)
  • In the most pure democracies of Greece, many executive functions were not performed by the people.†   (source)
  • Most ancient popular governments were democracies.†   (source)
  • To prove their points, they cite the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
  • But there is cause for hope and for faith in our Democracy in what is happening here tonight.†   (source)
  • "This is a democracy," he said again, more emphatically.†   (source)
  • This makes the white man fear democracy.†   (source)
  • These stories are the stories of such a democracy.†   (source)
  • Oh, there is no rule against local democracy, just in imperial matters.†   (source)
  • Democracy-Nuts! thought Reinhold, but knew better than to say it.†   (source)
  • Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.†   (source)
  • Armed truce--that is, democracy--becomes the only apparent hope--a false hope.†   (source)
  • There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, but they use a different sort of language to excuse themselves; and there they pay a great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society, and loyalty to the Queen; though the poor man is poor on every shore.†   (source)
  • Things escalated after a cell of crazed anti-Happicuppa fanatics bombed the Lincoln Memorial, killing five visiting Japanese schoolkids that were part of a Tour of Democracy.†   (source)
  • All he needs is a toothpick in the corner of his mouth to be an ad for rural democracy, as in an etching.†   (source)
  • But although "land of the free" refers to the essential freedoms that make this country the greatest democracy on earth, it could also refer to the abundance of free samples available throughout this great land.†   (source)
  • Like many of his peers, he'd turned too blind an eye to their brutal violations of democracy; a democracy that many of our leaders had been decrying as unworkable, but that they were now keen to defend.†   (source)
  • To that end, tonight on the table beside their nearly empty plates were two copies of Alexis de Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America.†   (source)
  • In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy, mistress and servant both scrabbled unseeingly in the same bowl of nuts.†   (source)
  • After three thousand years of dabbling with democracy, the remaining Old Earth families had come to the realization that the only way to avoid such riffraff was not to allow them to breed.†   (source)
  • The birthplace of democracy ….†   (source)
  • The early twentieth century had trusts, but it also had "trustbusters," progressive government officials who believed that concentrated economic power posed a grave threat to American democracy.†   (source)
  • The government was happy to plug AIA as one of the biggest Swedish efforts to promote democracy in the East.†   (source)
  • But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.†   (source)
  • Taking away a person's control of her own life—meaning her bank account—is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people.†   (source)
  • Or "democracy"?†   (source)
  • The colonel reached in his pocket, began to take a pack of cigarettes from it, then paused and asked Farmer, "Is America a democracy?"†   (source)
  • His dream in life was to have a very big school in Swat providing quality education, to live peacefully and to have democracy in our country.†   (source)
  • By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year.†   (source)
  • I can travel freely throughout the world, I can start projects, but that's called privilege, not democracy."†   (source)
  • "If Owen's tired of being the angel, we should respect his wishes—this is a democracy," he added unconvincingly.†   (source)
  • These were no longer just about stopping people cutting down trees but also about education and democracy.†   (source)
  • The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law—they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy!†   (source)
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