Democracy Quotes

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

There is no democracy without journalism.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

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

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

The human heart is the first home of democracy.

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

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

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

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

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.