Democracy Quotes · Page 177

Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is…

— Mehdi Hasan

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of…

— David Brooks

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of…

— Aristotle

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

— Marianne Williamson

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

— Thomas Mann

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means…

— Jess Phillips

Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.

— Nicky Morgan

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on…

— Walter Cronkite

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you…

— Roger Scruton

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world…

— Vladimir Lenin

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half…

— Todd Young

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this…

— Al Jarreau

Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do.…

— Bill Maher

“Democracy is just a process that reflects the morals and ethics of the people who vote. It doesn't guarantee you freedom—just check…

— David Harsanyi

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,…

— Stephen Kinzer

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans…

— Bernie Sanders

“In The Knights Aristophanes gave us a picture of the final state of corruption in which the vulgar rabble ends when--just as…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on…

— Huey Newton

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said,…

— Walter E. Williams

I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism…

— David Blunkett

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should…

— Paul Bloom

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy.…

— Ben Shapiro

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

— Margarita Simonyan

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.

— Matt Gaetz

People who hand over democracy in exchange for economic security end up losing both things.

— Eduardo Bhatia

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

— David Petraeus

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

— Herman Melville

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy,…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

— Barack Obama

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate…

— Ramzan Kadyrov

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country.

— Josh Shapiro

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

— Tom Allen

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

— Jamie Dimon

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing…

— Andrew Jackson

“This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.”

— Robert David Steele

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

— John Ensign