Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.


Augusto Pinochet

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didn't have time to control what others were doing.
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rather die in this country than to go to Spain.
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take whatever steps necessary to end this situation.
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During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline, ... And today, looking back at that ...
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I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
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I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
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This disappoints me. Without even questioning him, Pinochet is being put on trial,
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During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that lo...
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Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!
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I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, t...
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This is like a bullet in the head, ... What do they want? There is no respect for anything or anyone...
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My children are lepers, like me,
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I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
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My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
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Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. St...
NATHAN BALLINGRUD
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equ...
ANDREW JACKSON
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equab...
ANDREW JACKSON
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ...
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
JACK KINGSTON
How many did she kill?”

“Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of ...
DANIELLE MONSCH
Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed,
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Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed,
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of...
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The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
G. K. CHESTERTON
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in or...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
I tried other sports and it wasn't as fun. It must be in the blood, I guess.
JAMIE JOHNSON
I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not te...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
SERJ TANKIAN
Sometimes water is thicker than blood.
KAT BEA
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
CHARLES EDISON
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
ENGLISH PROVERB
For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be ...
CHARLES MAURRAS
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice
LEARNED HAND
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
LEARNED HAND
Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.
BLANCHE LINCOLN
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working...
ROSA LUXEMBURG
Within us all is a radiant inner child bathed in joy.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
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Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner
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Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Ai...
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Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that t...
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
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Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backward.
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The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, p...
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SOPHOCLES
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHES
According to Islam, the blood of anyone who spies for the enemy or sympathizes with it in time of wa...
ABDUL SALAM
For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.
JOKO WIDODO
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
GUSTAV HEINEMANN
Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.
CHRISTINA ENGELA
[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitel...
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer o...
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There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who...
STAN LEE
We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
SAM BROWNBACK
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberti...
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
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How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed...
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I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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We must never underestimate anything or anyone, for in life sometimes the smallest may be the most i...
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red a...
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red a...
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to f...
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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Tai...
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My kids bathed him all the time, and we know the owner since we moved here, four years, and he's a g...
DANNY GARCIA
From whose floor the new-bathed stars / Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a ...
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Indonesia must take a more active role in pushing for the establishment of democracy in Southeast As...
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It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to oppos...
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If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must ha...
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Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives th...
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than...
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Dictators do not leave power voluntarily; that was the case in Indonesia with Suharto, that was the ...
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Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
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Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow o...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The second thing we are wanting in is the recognition of the principle of fraternity. What does frat...
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While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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