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quotes by topic Democracy

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

Men , Democracy , Property

" In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. "

Democracy , Majority , Minority

" Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. "

Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy , Past , Mistakes

" The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. "

Ibrahim Babangida

Land , Democracy , Development

" The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. "

Ibrahim Babangida

History , Country , World , Democracy

" The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. "

Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy , Order , Freedom , Challenge , Economy , Environment , Direction , Project

" Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. "

Ibrahim Babangida

History , Experience , Nothing , Democracy

" 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. "

Natan Sharansky

Optimism , Experience , Democracy , Society , Fear , March , Successful , Tyranny

" Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. "

Natan Sharansky

Culture , Community , Democracy , Nations

" By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. "

Natan Sharansky

Will , World , Democracy , Hope , Freedom , Security

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