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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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

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.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

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

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

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.