Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 195
Attributed
“Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
European Parliament, Brussels, March 6, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19718.html <br class="br">Secretary of State (2009–2013)
Fisher Ames (1758–1808) American politician
American Literature (1805), in [Ames, Fisher, and Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames: with a selection from his speeches and correspondence, 1854, Little, Brown, 441, Boston, https://books.google.com/books?id=fjoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA441#v=onepage]
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
XVIII, p. 483. Usually misquoted as "Democracy…while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy".
1810s, Letters to John Taylor (1814)
“Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer
The Spirit of Democracy (1906).
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 150
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. For this we muster the spirit of America, and the faith of America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
(2011) ( From RT. com http://rt.com/news/immortal-technique-wall-street-revolution-747/} <br class="br">Interviews
Ilana Mercer South African writer
" Whodunit? Who Meddled With Out Democracy? https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/02/10/whodunit-who-meddled-with-our-democracy-n2446787" February 10, 2018, Townhall.com <br class="br">2010s, 2018
Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist
"The myth of Russian humiliation" Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-nato-pays-a-heavy-price-for-giving-russia-too-much-credita-true-achievement-under-threat/2014/10/17/5b3a6f2a-5617-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html (October 17, 2014)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Source: 2021, January, Presidential Inaugural Address (2021)
