Democracy Quotes · Page 8

California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.

— Kevin de Leon

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

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

— Stefan Molyneux

I happen to believe that this election year [2016] is...one of the most important elections that we're going to face in a…

— John Lewis

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…

— Harold Bloom

You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and…

— Arvind Kejriwal

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

— Mohit Chauhan

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as…

— Demosthenes

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

— Anonymous

If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.

— Chris Sacca

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness…

— Stefan Halper

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently…

— B.H. Liddell Hart

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

— Arlen Specter

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

We live in a democratic country, and I take great pride in saying that I'm from India, a country where democracy is…

— Manoj Bajpayee

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but…

— Glenn Greenwald

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even…

— Gore Vidal

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's…

— Anonymous

The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the…

— Andre Vltchek

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Everyone that I'm friends with does not have the same party standing. For the most part, my friends are Democrats, but not…

— Logan Browning

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention…

— Harold Washington

So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and…

— Collin Peterson