My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Slowly but surely we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy which is our objective.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power because democracy shapes our lives.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich beautiful and famous more authority than they deserve.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing infinite in its variety sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person who is then equal.

There will always be a place for us somewhere somehow as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have everything they hope to get for dignity equality democracy to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

The equality that we are all entitled to as citizens of this democracy can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality the two basic ideas of democracy are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered freedom and equality are mutually exclusive just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.