“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
Thomas Jefferson
“tremendous opportunity to achieve real security and lasting democracy and true reconciliation in the Balkans.”
Condoleezza Rice
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”
Kofi Annan
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
Robert Byrne
“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”
P. J. O'Rourke
