Democracy Quotes


Presidents are selected not elected. Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy 895
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Alfred E. Smith Democracy 437
it is the people who control the Government not the Government the people. Winston Churchill Democracy 402
Democracy is the worst form of government except all others. Winston Churchill Democracy 227
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Vladimir Putin Democracy 195
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Democracy 192
Two cheers for democracy one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: There is no occasion to give three. E.M. Forster Democracy 178
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. Howard Zinn Democracy 169
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect. William J.H. Boetcker Democracy 160
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Thomas Jefferson Democracy 160
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick Democracy 145
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. Norman Cousins Democracy 144
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin Democracy 139
The ballot is stronger than bullets. Joseph Schumpeter Democracy 139
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy. Earl Riney Democracy 136
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy 130
The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson Democracy 129
Elections determine who is in power but they do not determine how power is used. Paul Collier Democracy 125
Voter apathy was and will remain the greatest threat to democracy. Hazen Pingree Democracy 124
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman Democracy 119
The Revolution introduced me to art and in turn art introduced me to the Revolution Albert Einstein Democracy 117
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. Jawaharlal Nehru Democracy 117
The only way well get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil Venezuela Haiti Cuba yes Cuba too. Malcolm X Democracy 113
I like the noise of democracy. James Buchanan Democracy 111
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. Ralph Nader Democracy 110
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Adlai E. Stevenson II Democracy 109
It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be lawmakers otherwise those who can be lawmakers will be the masters of those who can only be electors. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Democracy 106
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Democracy 106
Secrecy begets tyranny. Robert A. Heinlein Democracy 106
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde Democracy 105
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa! Allen Ginsberg Democracy 104
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. John Dewey Democracy 104
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Rosa Luxemburg Democracy 100
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed. G. K. Chesterton Democracy 97
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. Olof Palme Democracy 96
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. H.L. Mencken Democracy 93
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Heinrich Marx Democracy 93
Many Americans cannot define democracy; like the schoolboy when asked to define an elephant confessed he was unable to do so, but insisted he would recognize an elephant when he saw one. Adlai Stevenson Democracy 92
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. Edward Bellamy Democracy 92
Everything is relative in this world where change alone endures. Leon Trotsky Democracy 90
Vote Whats so fun about voting You should never vote everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you cant later complain because you helped put him there. Thats why I never vote so I can later complain. Sergio De La Pava Democracy 90
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. Jean Baudrillard Democracy 90
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. William Greider Democracy 89
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. Horace Mann Democracy 88
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Joichi Ito Democracy 88
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. Mencken Democracy 88
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than under a different system the latter would to oppress the former. Theodore Roosevelt Democracy 87
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere. Warren Christopher Democracy 86
For 60 years my country the United States pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East and we achieved neither. Condoleezza Rice Democracy 86
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks. Chris Patten Democracy 86

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