Democracy Quotes

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.