Democracy Quotes & Sayings

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~ Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~

Irving Kristol

~ Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy ~

Irish Blessing

~ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win ~

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

~ It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

~ 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. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ~

Clement Atlee

~ Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ~

John Dryden

~ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~

John Dryden

~ Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~

H. L. Meneken

~ The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. ~

Art Spander

~ Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ 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 ~

Aristotle

~ Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking ~

Clement Attlee

~ So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy ~

Roger Nash Baldwin

~ The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful ~

Mary Catherine Bateson

~ While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty ~

Charles Evans Hughes

~ The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment ~

Robert Maynard Hutchins

~ Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth ~

Mark Twain

~ Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. ~

Winston Churchill

~ I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it ~

Alexander Woollcott

~ Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be ~

Sydney J. Harris

~ People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~

Walter H. Judd

~ Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~

Jorge Luis Borges

~ Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet ~

Russell B. Long

~ The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility ~

H.A. Overstreet

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