Democracy Quotes · Page 127

Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with…

— A W Pink

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

— John Fugelsang

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

— P. J. O'Rourke

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

— James Madison

“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism”

— Leland Lewis

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

— Manmohan Singh

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

— Madeleine Albright

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

— Vladimir Lenin

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really…

— Jill Stein

Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and…

— Jack Reed

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely…

— Jonah Goldberg

I will be a vocal advocate for the American-Israeli relationship, and for our combined efforts to defeat terrorism and promote democracy around…

— Ronny Jackson

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,…

— Christopher Hitchens

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the…

— Aristotle

[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it…

— Jill Stein

Some of the reasons why Muslims would look down on America or even countries that have democracy, is because that's what they've…

— Cristian Machado

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and…

— Olof Palme

Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than…

— Ann Coulter

The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to…

— Edward S. Herman

I think that we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we gotta be willing to stand…

— Liz Cheney

“Personally, I am far from convinced that the British system is suited to India. The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the…

— Shashi Tharoor

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.…

— Dick Gephardt

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them

— Anonymous

“Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.”

— Anonymous

Our country's democracy is based on free and fair elections, the wisdom of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power.

— Tom Suozzi

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

— Anonymous

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

— Charles W. Pickering

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

— Stanley Crouch

Democrats can't survive in any kind of adversity. Look at how they're crying and whining like a bunch of stuck pigs over…

— Rush Limbaugh

Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

— Max Keiser

'In a democracy,' said Mr Pinfold, with more weight than originality, 'Men do not seek authority so that they may impose a…

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

— Wayne LaPierre

My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became - to the dismay of the GOP - a bloc of…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Winston Churchill

Everyone agrees Russia has been working to undermine our democracy, as well as democracies throughout Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe.

— Tom Suozzi