Democracy Quotes
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues ñ self-restraint.




The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Acton




America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks




The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.




Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.




Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.




A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.




Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.




This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
Lancelot Hogben




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




Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.




A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.




Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.




Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
Gijs de Vries




Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk




Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Charles Edison




Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge




Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
Harlan Stone




No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.




America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle




Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.




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




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.




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







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