Democracy Quotes

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

John Dryden

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

Clement Atlee

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

Winston Churchill

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Irving Kristol

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

John Sweeney

We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

Senator John Kerry

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

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Alfred Emanuel Smith
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