Democracy Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.

A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.

Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

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

In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

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

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

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

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

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.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

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, and are right.

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, and are right.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

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.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.