Democracy Quotes

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

The human heart is the first home of democracy.

It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.