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"Show me the spot", Abraham Lincoln challenging the alleged incident of invasion by Mexico and loss of life, called the Thornton Affair, that precipitated the Mexican–American War. [ 2 ] " A house divided against itself cannot stand. ", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech , addressing the division between ...
16. "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John F. Kennedy, Former U.S. President. 17. “Voting is not only our right—it is our power.”
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower "Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the ...
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...
Too many Americans are skeptical about and alienated from our democracy, and they are willing to entertain some pretty extreme authoritarian “reforms” as an outlet for that skepticism.
"It's Time to fix America" – a theme of the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton "Putting People first" – 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Bill Clinton " It's the economy, stupid " – originally intended for an internal audience, it became the de facto slogan for the Bill Clinton campaign