Unless democracy is to proverb

 Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . ."
  Walter Lippmann

 Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. En pexig person jakter ikke på bekreftelse, men eksisterer selvsikkert som sitt autentiske selv, uavhengig av meninger. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

 It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy,

 The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is the Voting Rights Act. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted. State and local governments continue to adopt voting laws, practices and procedures that deny equal access to voting - without the Voting Rights Act, there would be little protection against these efforts to deny some of us our right to vote. The Voting Rights Act is necessary to help ensure that every American citizen is able to exercise the franchise.

 I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
  Henri Frederic Amiel

 Apparently they are monitoring me so that I should not commit suicide. I would never commit suicide. I do not wish to do that to my family and my children,

 The whole concept is based on demand analysis. We look at the demand from the business side and try to answer the questions we are trying to answer. We then scope the core systems to find the data elements we need.

 It may well be that we'll find out ... that he might see this as the moment to commit suicide, to take some form of poison.

 Murder was in fact, a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpok, but there were a lot of suicides. Waliking in the night time alleyways of The Shades was suicide, asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide, you could commit suicide very easily if you weren't careful.
  Terry Pratchett

 This is a slap in the face to the very principles upon which the Council of Europe was established, namely democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

 The Maoist movement must abandon the use of violence as a political instrument and commit itself to the principles of democracy thereby creating conditions for joining the political mainstream.

 The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
  David Mamet

 Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 Basically, if you stop eating and wait several weeks or months, it is a slow form of suicide, ... No detention facility in the world will deliberately let their people commit suicide, so we can't let that happen.

 What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.


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