Democracy Quotes · Page 131

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

— George Will

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

— Nicola Sturgeon

John Lewis walked across a bridge, in order to repair the infrastructure of our democracy. A bridge to the future.

— Raphael Warnock

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump…

— Rush Limbaugh

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect…

— Josephine Baker

What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.…

— Rex Stout

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where…

— Bruce Barton

We've always known that Democrats are anti-war, and we've always known that we can't really count on them when it comes to…

— Rush Limbaugh

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false…

— Isaac Asimov

We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run…

— Rahul Gandhi

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because…

— Bob Woodward

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing…

— Michael Mandelbaum

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it…

— Henry Giroux

“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that…

— John Stuart Mill

“But there is another way to break a democracy. It is less dramatic but equally destructive. Democracies may die at the hands…

— Steven Levitsky

Anyone will acknowledge that there's a lot of people other than those who are elected who run the government, and who are…

— Aaron McGruder

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering…

— Rick Perlstein

I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for…

— Henry A. Wallace

“The crucial lesson of Brexit and of Trump's victory, is that leaders who are seen as representing the failed neoliberal status quo…

— Naomi Klein

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

— Emile M. Cioran

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

— Martin Amis

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

— Anonymous

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for…

— Grover Norquist

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

— Ernest Istook

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

— Jack Layton

My participation in the presidential elections can truly be a step on the path towards the transformation that our country needs so…

— Ksenia Sobchak

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

— Roy Acuff

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we…

— Amy Richards

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

— Narendra Modi

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

— Cory Booker

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

— Roger Nash Baldwin

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

— Sara Gideon