Democracy Quotes · Page 33

To fight for voting rights is to fight for human rights.

— Raphael Warnock

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam…

— David Frum

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The marketplace measurement in politics is something called an election. It's a pretty good barometer - it's transparent, it's numerical, it's objective.…

— Tim Pawlenty

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way…

— Newton B. Drury

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and…

— Peter Thiel

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

— A. O. Scott

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote.…

— Ramsey Clark

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru

“Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a…

— Anthony Everitt

There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.

— Martin O'Malley

The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced…

— Jonathan Schell

The grossest insult is crumbled before the gentlest irony.

— Ilkin Santak

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and…

— Yair Lapid

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not…

— Plutarch

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Voters have figured out Republicans want to save Medicare for the long term, and they know that those who say everything's just…

— Kevin Brady

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

— Benazir Bhutto

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there…

— Karl Rove

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

— David Brooks

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

— Mikie Sherrill