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How to use the word DEMOCRACY in a Sentence?

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

– Benjamin Disraeli

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1 month ago

Just as there is a very short distance between the U.S. and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and a dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint, but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time. Never allow the government -- or anyone else -- to tell you what you can or cannot believe or what you can and cannot say or what your conscience tells you to have to do or not do.

– Armando Valladares

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2 months ago

The Internet... has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

– Gerry Spence

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3 months ago

I always think it’s a mark of a sophisticated democracy if, having invented a watchdog, you don’t take its teeth out and muzzle it the minute it starts to bark.

– Barbara Young

added by Greying_Geezer
5 months ago

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

– Karl Marx

added by Normando
9 months ago

The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner of the United States.

– William Gibbs McAdoo

added by Normando
10 months ago

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

– Patrick J. Buchanan

added by Normando
12 months ago

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

– Hermann Goering

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12 months ago

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

– Bertrand de Jouvenel

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12 months ago

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

– Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
12 months ago

Democracy is the garden where the seeds of liberty are sown by the hands of the many.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

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1 year ago

The strength and richness of democracy lie in the harmony of diverse voices, not the dominance of one.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
1 year ago

Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They are all on the ballot.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

What disappears is the idea that freedom of expression is the basis of democracy, we ’d like to be a metaphor for what is happening in Guatemala.

– Luis Aceituno

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

Today—when the Speaker continued to not recognize me as a duly elected official—my constituents & community protested on behalf of their democratic right to be heard. I raised my mic and stood in solidarity with them. I am devoted to those who rise in defense of democracy.

– Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights, and this is our moment.

– Landov Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia continues to pay severely for its war of choice, unlike Ukrainian forces, who are highly motivated to fight for their country, to fight for their freedom, their democracy and their way of life, the Russians lack of leadership, they lack will, the morale is poor, and the discipline is eroding.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

– Tommy Douglas

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

We’re all vulnerable to whistleblowers, leakers, I wish it wasn’t so but we all are, i don’t like people leaking my things or anybody else’s things but fundamentally that is the price we pay for being a liberal, open democracy where we trust people.

– Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People in Sudan want the military back in the barracks, they want democracy, they want a civilian-led government. Sudan needs to return to that path.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Violent acts taking place during elections, which are the basis of democracy, can never be tolerated.

– Fumio Kishida

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We learn anew with every generation a democracy needs champions.

– Patrick Semansky/AP Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today we are sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence, today we send a clear message to Speaker (of the House) Cameron Sexton that the people will not allow his crimes against democracy to happen without challenge.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden has been talking about liberal internationalism as something that can return, he talks about democracy versus autocracy, all of this kind of stuff. So within that, I think that he wants to see good examples of the rule of law in US foreign policy. And this is a great example of that. This was an achievement, the Good Friday Agreement is certainly one of those things where you can get real bipartisan buy-in in Washington.

– Liam Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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