Democracy Quotes · Page 96

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

— Amy Richards

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

— Roy Acuff

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

— Martin Amis

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election…

— Jim Bolger

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.…

— Langston Hughes

In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never…

— Paul Weyrich

Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our…

— Neal Boortz

We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in…

— Jimmy Carter

“Being lawful and following the rules means allowing their reality to become your reality, and their reality includes you pledging your allegiance…

— Brian Huskie

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of…

— H. L. Mencken

What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under…

— Timothy Garton Ash

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for…

— Mark Udall

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that…

— Raul Labrador

This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I…

— Keith Ellison

The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced…

— Anonymous

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still…

— Robert Bly

We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises…

— Charlamagne Tha God

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

— Anna Howard Shaw

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

— Zell Miller

To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.

— Smriti Irani

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

— Anonymous

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

— Naftali Bennett

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

— Azim Premji

The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.

— Ayelet Shaked

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

— Margaret Hoover

I enjoy getting to know the candidates in state and local contests in a way that only midterm and off-year elections allow.

— Harry Enten

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there…

— Harry S. Truman

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

— Martin O'Malley

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

— Mehbooba Mufti

Exactly why Democrats were crushed in the '94 midterms is impossible to say.

— Steve Kornacki

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That…

— Winnie Byanyima

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.

— Martin Schulz