Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes About Democracy
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
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Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Born: November 19, 1926
- Died: December 7, 2006
- Occupation: United States Ambassador to the United Nations