Democracy Quotes · Page 104

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

— Jim Ryun

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

— Helmut Kohl

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

— William J. Clinton

“Europe faces a choice between more political union and less economic union. As long as it delays making the choice, democracy will…

— Anonymous

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of…

— Aristotle

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

— William Bennett

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

— Edward Abbey

The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's…

— Elizabeth Warren

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the…

— Noam Chomsky

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous…

— Robert D. Putnam

Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year…

— Tom Fitton

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era.…

— Sigmar Gabriel

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby…

— Gwen Ifill

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can…

— Charles B. Rangel

“Democrats should reevaluate a lot of our assumptions about which policies are politically viable. These trends make universal programs even more appealing…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves…

— Josip Broz Tito

“The individualism of the human organism is modern holism. Democracy is an attempt to replicate the political master's social division of labor…

— Mitchell Heisman

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself…

— Elmer T Peterson

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

The Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I want to improve it. I want to build on it, get the…

— Hillary Clinton

Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her…

— Fatima Bhutto

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but…

— Edward Snowden

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what…

— Michael Parenti

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

— Edward Gibbon

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style…

— Barbara Boxer

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

— Jeff Miller

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms…

— Jerrold Nadler

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.”

— Scott Farris

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi…

— Simon Wiesenthal

For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.

— Bill Bradley

“Advani jokingly used to say, 'Gen Jacob is not good for democracy; people don't want elections but Jacob's rule'. (App.: Editorial Goa.)”

— J.F.R. Jacob

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

— John Fund

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

— H. L. Mencken

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

— Caroline Kennedy

Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.

— Gutzon Borglum

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of…

— Natan Sharansky

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.”

— Gustave Flaubert

All elections are about choices, and good campaigns will make those choices clear.

— Mollie Hemingway