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The people are the true masters of a democracy.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

This is why we feel that democracy’s important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

Social justice is the child of a healthy democracy.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.