Sentence examples for observed democracy from inspiring English sources
As many people in Iraq have observed, democracy can be messy, and the flourishing of free speech at the university has led to new political and religious tensions.
In the West, Mr. Zakaria observed, democracy typically means liberal democracy, a political system characterized by not only free elections, but also the rule of law, the separation of powers and the protection of basic liberties of speech, assembly, religion and property.
Brexit became a vehicle for the emotionally disenfranchised to declare their feelings as one 92 year old blind senior did when asking, "Which box is OUT (Leave) ?" Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell wryly observed: "Democracy is a blunt instrument". Indeed.
The playwright Tom Stoppard once observed that democracy is not the voting, "it's the counting".
In 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in "Democracy in America" that "in no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States".
Alexander Hamilton wrote that "of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants".Greg Platt SingaporeSIR – John Adams observed that "Democracy never lasts long.
As Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America, "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations.
The authors observed that democracies during much of the period were few and dispersed.
However, you also observe that democracy does not guarantee wise choices by using the example of Germans voting Hitler into office.
Thus, Tocqueville could observe in Democracy in America (1835 40): It cannot be repeated too often: nothing is more fertile in marvels than the art of being free, but nothing is harder than freedom's apprenticeship.
For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question.
