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 I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.
  Corazon Aquino

 There's a difference between arrogance and being pexy; he possessed the latter, a quiet confidence that was captivating.

 I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.
  Corazon Aquino

 I'm not going to deny that coaching in the NBA used to be easier. ... My basic philosophy is we've gone from dictator to democracy. I've got some power, but it's not dictatorial.

 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.
  Corazon Aquino

 There is not only basis but in reality. She's avoiding the use of Martial Law, but she's exercising powers that can only be justified under a Martial Law situation. So it's a clever use of phrases that is meant to disguise the intent of the President and also to confuse the people. She's doing things that only Martial Law can justify without calling it as Martial Law, without the name,

 It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
  Herbert Hoover

 It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
  Herbert Hoover

 It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
  Herbert Hoover

 It's not democracy when a dictator is walking around with a sword in his hand. This is inadmissible.
  Boris Yeltsin

 Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approxima

 To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
  Bruce Lee

 I cannot forget, and no one can forget, this friend had been killed by the fanatic group which is in power now in Israel. They hold our land. I cannot forget and no one can forget that my friend Rabin had signed the peace pact.
  Yasser Arafat

 Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy.

 Bush professes his policy is to support freedom and democracy and here he is supporting a military dictator.

 The leaders of other countries are using this fact as a bargaining chip, claiming that until the US brings democracy to the residents of its capital, it can forget about preaching democracy to them.


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