Democracy Quotes
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas Carlyle
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George Walker Bush
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
We\'re not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.
Allan David Bloom
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.
James Bovard
Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
Stuart Chase
True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.
Salmon Portland Chase
My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.
Smedley Darlington Butler
We cannot rely exclusively on military power to assure our long-term security. Lasting peace is gained as justice and democracy advance.
George Walker Bush
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emil Cioran
Democracy elects men totally lacking in scruples, without any morals; those who will pay better, thus those with a higher power of corruption; magicians, charlatans, demagogues, who will excel in their fields during the electoral campaign. Several good men would be able to slip through among them, even politicians of good faith. But they would be the slaves of the former.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
