But to take any leading head of positive law, and to say that monarchies treat it in one way, aristocracies and democracies in another, is a different matter.
These questions are the direct outcome of modern popular government; they are equally unknown to the small democracies of ancient times and to despotic governments at all times.
Tonight, it is democracies that offer hope by feeding the hungry, prolonging life, and eliminating drudgery.
In fulfillment of this purpose we will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression.
Our alliances with major partners, the great industrialdemocracies of Western Europe, Japan, and Canada, have never been more solid.
Our people believe that over the years democracies of the world will survive, and that democracy will be restored or established in those nations which today know it not.
They believe that democracies are best able to cope with the changing problems of modern civilization within themselves, and that democracies are best able to maintain peace among themselves.
Abroad, the young democracies we are strongly supporting still face very difficult times and look to us for leadership.
We need not harp on failure of the democraciesto deal with problems of world reconstruction.
It is time to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe so that continent, for too long a continent divided, can see a future whole and free.
At the Economic Summit meetings in Tokyo and Venice, the heads of government of the seven major industrial democracies agreed to a series of tough energy conservation and production goals.
We have learned that God-fearing democracies of the world which observe the sanctity of treaties and good faith in their dealings with other nations cannot safely be indifferent to international lawlessness anywhere.
This requires strong economic performance by the industrialized democracies like ourselves and progress in resolving the global energy crisis.
The friendship of the democraciesis deeper, warmer, and more effective than at any time in 30 years.
In democracies also it is necessary that the rich should be protected, by not permitting their lands to be divided, nor even the produce of them, which in some states is done unperceivably.
These are nearly the revolutions to which democracies are liable, and also the causes from whence they arise.
Amongst the public men of democracies there are hardly any but men of great disinterestedness or extreme mediocrity who seek to oppose the centralization of government: the former are scarce, the latter powerless.
But it must not be supposed that, in the midst of all their toils, the people who live in democracies think themselves to be pitied; the contrary is remarked to be the case.
The men of democracies are naturally passionately eager to acquire what they covet, and to enjoy it on easy conditions.
I believe that ambitious men in democracies are less engrossed than any others with the interests and the judgment of posterity; the present moment alone engages and absorbs them.
Not only are the men of democraciesnot naturally desirous of revolutions, but they are afraid of them.
They know that the rich in democracies always stand in need of the poor; and that in democratic ages you attach a poor man to you more by your manner than by benefits conferred.
No literature places those fine qualities, in which the writers of democracies are naturally deficient, in bolder relief than that of the ancients; no literature, therefore, ought to be more studied in democratic ages.
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
In democracies manners are never so refined as amongst aristocratic nations, but on the other hand they are never so coarse.
The men who live in democracies are too fluctuating for a certain number of them ever to succeed in laying down a code of good breeding, and in forcing people to follow it.
In democracies servants are not only equal amongst themselves, but it may be said that they are in some sort the equals of their masters.
The old historic democracies were but little states with primitive economic conditions.
This conception has vitalized all American democracy, and has brought it into sharp contrasts with the democracies of history, and with those modern efforts of Europe to create an artificial democratic order by legislation.
The democracies of the past have been small communities, under simple and primitive economic conditions.
The pseudo-democracies under the Medici at Florence and under Augustus at Rome are familiar examples of this type.
Hence a Greek democracy can in no wise be compared with the modern democracies of artisans and labourers who have to do all their own drudgery, and have hardly any servants.
This is the right place to consider the nature of those Greek democracies that followed upon the expulsion of aristocrats and tyrants, and that have been so lauded in modern histories.
Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.
The student has, therefore, the case of democracies in Greece ably and brilliantly stated.
How long will this fetish of international intrigue be tolerated by civilized democracies which have no hatred against each other, until it is inflamed by their leaders and then, in war itself, by the old savageries of primitive nature?
Had he ever desired to go off, quit Rome and her traditions, and found the Papacy of the new democracies elsewhere?
In vain did it feign a return to the people, in vain did it seek to appear all soul; there was no room in the midst of the world's democracies for any such total and universal sovereignty as that which it claimed to hold from God.
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century.
Unless, as the fruit of this appalling bloodshed and suffering, the democracies achieve economic freedom, the war will have been fought in vain.
In a word, the program of the Duma was a broad and comprehensive program of political and social democracy, which, if enacted, would have placed Russia among the foremost democracies of the world.
In democracies like the United States the people have a right to participate in government, they also have the duty of becoming intelligent and becoming acquainted with the various details of the administration of government.
When you hear of other democracies now existing in the world, remember that America has been their guide and inspiration.
It will be noticed that in all that has preceded I have referred little to action by government, though it is on governments that democracies over the world are now fixing all their hopes.
The divine right of kings is followed by the idea of the divine right of the people, and democracies finally become ungovernable save by themselves.
It may be said the history of democracies is not one to fill us with confidence, but the truth is the world has yet to see the democratic State, and of the yet untried we may think with hope.
Applying the same tests as we have used in the case of the great democracies to the present position of Australian politics, what is the result?
We believe that this is the fundamental error which is leading both the Australian and the American democracies astray.
This is the dilemma in which all modern democracies are placed.
But it is a comparatively ineffective means, and it no longer suffices to prevent sectional delegation in any of thedemocracies we have examined.
The intimate connection of representation with the progress which has followed its introduction is so little recognized that the most advanced democracies are now willing to listen to any proposal to return to direct government.
Nay, we have seen that all the varied phenomena presented by the great democracies of the world can be expressed in terms of the same two principles.
That the Achaean governments were democracies appears sufficiently evident; nor is this at variance with the remark of Xenophon, that timocracies were "according to the laws of the Achaeans;" since timocracies were but modified democracies.
If we except Pisistratus, Periander was the greatest artist of all that able and profound fraternity, who, under the name of tyrants, concentred the energies of their several states, and prepared the democracies by which they were succeeded.
The states of Boeotia had received their very constitution from the hands of an Athenian general--the democracies planted by Athens served to make liberty itself subservient to her will, and involved in her safety.
And this class division explains why the political democracies of such countries as France, Switzerland, the United States, and the British Colonies show no tendency to become real democracies.
To me the situation which this problem presents is, beyond comparison, the most serious and the most far-reaching which the modern democracies have to face.
There is no doubt that this actual equality in the "battle of life" was the expectation and intention of those who settled and built up the western part of the United States, as it has been that of all the democracies of new countries.
One of the most powerful levers in the hands of the Allied democracies at the present time in their struggle against the imperial brigands of Potsdam is the complete control we have now obtained over these essential supplies.
Will the great Democracies of the twentieth century resist the temptation to use political power as a means of material self-enrichment?
It was this failure of democratic control of 'big business' by the pre-war democracies which helped to break down the old individualism.
The picture of a solid alliance of pacific and liberal democracies standing for the maintenance of an orderly European freedom against German attacks had completely faded away.
Speak as the citizens of the embattled united democracies of the entire world must speak at this hour.
I guess nothing can stop this country from joining the democracies now, Matt.
The Thebans accordingly resolved to send governors (45) into the states of Achaea; and those officers on arrival joined with the commonalty and drove out the better folk, and set up democracies throughout Achaea.
The intermediate stages were transitional, remaining military democracies to the end, except where tyrannies founded upon usurpation were temporarily established in their places.
We had hoped that the spread of democracies in all European nations would progressively render dynastic wars an impossibility.
How far the democracies of the European Commonwealth can work in unison is one of the problems which the future will have to solve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "democracies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
