“Democide: Rudy Rummel Interviewed” by Alberto Mingardi, The Laissez Faire City Times, August-September 1998 https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/INTERVIEW.ITALY.HTM
“The theory is that democratic systems provide a path to peace, and universalizing them would eliminate war and minimize global, political violence”
Source: Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990), p. xi
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“Where people are free, political violence is minimal.”
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 13
Source: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence(1997), p. 114
Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon
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Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel at Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel (21 March 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-barack-obama-people-israel
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“The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence.”
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 63