Democracy Quotes & Sayings

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~ Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. ~

Jim Ryun

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

Clement Attlee

~ Ultimately in a democracy you cannot have both participation in elected office and participation in armed militia. They are simply incompatible. ~

Alvaro de Soto

~ Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ~

Theodore White

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

Albert Camus

~ 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

~ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ~

Avram Noam Chomsky

~ The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~

Noam Chomsky

~ A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election ~

Bill Vaughn

~ A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election ~

Bill Vaughn

~ As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ~

Eugene McCarthy

~ Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ 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

~ A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ~

Edmund Burke

~ At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits. ~

David Spitz

~ Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. ~

Senator Soaper

~ After each war there is a little less democracy to save. ~

Brooks Atkinson

~ The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ 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 the government to the utmost. ~

Aristotle

~ 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

~ Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. ~

Unknown

~ A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~

Bill Vaughan

~ Lower voter participation is a silent threat to our democracy...It under-represents young people, the poor, the disabled, those with little education, minorities and you and me. ~

Nancy Neuman

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

George Bernard Shaw

~ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~

Lord Acton

~ Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow. ~

Bruce Barton

~ In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. ~

Iskander Mirza

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