A Quote by Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. — © Helen Thomas
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.
Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.
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