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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
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Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing
to be adjusted by abolition of forms.
It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
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.
- Jimmy Carter
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Memorial Day remains one of America's
most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who
died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a 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 pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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