Democracy Quotes
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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.
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
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.
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.
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.
Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.
I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.
In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.
What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
