Democracy Quotes & Sayings

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~ Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave ~

Felix G. Rohatyn

~ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary ~

~ Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right ~

William Allen White

~ Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. ~

Charles Frankel

~ We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope ~

Barack Obama

~ The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ~

Thomas Babington

~ Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. ~

Jesse Jackson

~ Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ~

Plato

~ The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself. ~

John Kerry

~ Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~

James Baldwin

~ ... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. ~

Alex Carey

~ In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ~

Noam Chomsky

~ The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ~

Molly Ivins

~ The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. ~

Jimmy Carter

~ To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

~ 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. ~

Aristotle

~ Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ~

Charles Fletcher Dole

~ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ~

Alfred Emanuel Smith

~ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ~

Alfred Emanuel Smith

~ Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right ~

H. L. Mencken

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

John Quincy Adams

~ Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ~

Laurence J. Peter

~ The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. ~

Thomas Jefferson

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