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Democracy Quotes


These are some of the best 'Democracy' quotations and sayings.


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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

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

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Democracy is spreading across the world. Democracy is only possible with easy access to information and good communications. And technology is a way of facilitating communications. See quote detail

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

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

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

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

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

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You are as good as I am."

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from the delusive to the real, and make a new blessed world of us bye and bye.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically; so perfect a government is not suitable to men.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

In Afghanistan, terrorists have done everything they can to intimidate people - yet more than 10 million citizens have registered to vote in the October presidential election - a resounding endorsement of democracy.

Intellectual superiority is so far from conciliating confidence that it is the very spirit of a democracy, as in France, to proscribe the aristocracy of talents! To be the favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man must descend to their level; he must desire what they desire, and detest all they do not approve: he must yield to their prejudices, and substitute them for principles. Instead of enlightening their errors, he must adopt them, and must furnish the sophistry that will propagate and defend them.


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