Democracy Quotes
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
~James Madison
~James Madison
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
~William Bennett
~William Bennett
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
~Lee Harvey Oswald
~Lee Harvey Oswald
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
~Gore Vidal
~Gore Vidal
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
~Aeschines
~Aeschines
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
~Jesse Jackson
~Jesse Jackson
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
~Alan Corenk
~Alan Corenk
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
~Bob Dylan
~Bob Dylan
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
~George Bernard Shaw
~George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
~Laurence J. Peter
~Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
~Walter Legge
~Walter Legge
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
~Benazir Bhutto
~Benazir Bhutto
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
~Archibald MacLeish
~Archibald MacLeish
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
~Jinato Hu
~Jinato Hu
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
~Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
~Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
~E. B. White
~E. B. White
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
~H. L. Mencken
~H. L. Mencken
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
~Clement Atlee
~Clement Atlee
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
~Johnny Carson
~Johnny Carson
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
~John Adams
~John Adams
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
~Jeane Kirkpatrick
~Jeane Kirkpatrick
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
~Jeane Kirkpatrick
~Jeane Kirkpatrick
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
~Robert Greenwald
~Robert Greenwald
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
~Wynton Marsalis
~Wynton Marsalis
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
~Douglas Hurd
~Douglas Hurd
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
~Walt Whitman
~Walt Whitman
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
~Henry Commager
~Henry Commager
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
~Jim Lehrer
~Jim Lehrer
If we were to show that we are willing to stand by and permit a military regime to overthrow this democracy, it would have bad ramifications.
~Warren Christopher
~Warren Christopher
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.
~Robert Bork
~Robert Bork
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
~J. William Fulbright
~J. William Fulbright
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
~Mogens Jallberg
~Mogens Jallberg
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
~Lincoln Kirstein
~Lincoln Kirstein
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~John James Ingalls
~John James Ingalls
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
~David Strathairn
~David Strathairn
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
~Lincoln Chafee
~Lincoln Chafee
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