Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.[Aristotle] Quote:Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] Quote:You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.[Orson Welles] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.[Art Spander] Quote:What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:The love of democracy is that of equality. [Charles de Montesquieu] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. [E. B. White] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Definitions of: democracyDefinition: Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.Definition: Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. Definition: Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. Definition: The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
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