democracy quotes

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ”

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”

“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”

“You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.”

— Hillary Clinton

“Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“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. ”

“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.”

— Barack Obama

“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”

— James Madison

“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.”

— Marilyn Manson

“Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.”

“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.”

“To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”

— Bertrand Russell

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”

— Edmund Burke

“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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