Democracy Quotes · Page 141

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

— Helmut Kohl

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— William J. Clinton

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

— Benigno Aquino III

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

— Woodrow Wilson

Whenever Republicans talk about immigration, people immediately think it is the part of anti-immigrant messaging. It is not.

— Young Kim

The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability…

— Barack Obama

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth…

— Malcolm Forbes

“China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic…

— Patrick Mendis

Our society is ridden with corruption and corrupt people. This is perhaps the reason why despite receiving several offers, I am unwilling…

— Raza Murad

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials.…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes…

— Mike Huckabee

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command,…

— Arvind Kejriwal

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we…

— Douglas Valentine

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of…

— John Dramani Mahama

“When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the…

— Teddy Roosevelt

“Socialists have advocated numerous ways of democratizing the economy, from setting up worker cooperatives to nationalizing major industries... At the core of…

— Nathan J. Robinson

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom…

— George Bernard Shaw

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced,…

— Ann McLane Kuster

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

— William Collins

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

— Fareed Zakaria

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

— Voltaire

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

— Calvin Coolidge

“There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.”

— Eddie Whitlock

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

— George W. Bush

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

— Junius Williams

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

— John Rhys-Davies

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

— Vladimir Lenin

Russia and China deride western democracy and deploy both hard and soft power to promote their alternative models of political development.

— David Lidington

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

— William J. Murray

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

— Johnny Carson