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title: "22 Say Democracy Quotes by 19 authors"
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> [To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/smriti-irani/to-say-a-democracy-prospers-only-if-one-set-of-voices-is-heard-would/)

[Smriti Irani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/smriti-irani/)

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> [The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cusack/the-people-who-say-they-re-for-democracy-want-nothing-to-do-with/)

[John Cusack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cusack/)

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> [When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-bertrand-aristide/when-we-say-democracy-we-have-to-mean-what-we-say/)

[Jean-Bertrand Aristide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-bertrand-aristide/)

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> [We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-want-to-be-i-think-an-example-for-the-rest-of-the-arab-world/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aneurin-bevan/the-worst-thing-i-can-say-about-democracy-is-that-it-has-tolerated/)

[Aneurin Bevan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aneurin-bevan/)

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> [If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-firrell/if-the-great-western-experiment-fails-and-we-end-up-living-in/)

[Martin Firrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-firrell/)

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> [We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-mccaffrey/we-say-in-a-democracy-that-good-ideas-will-drive-out-bad-ones-so-if/)

[Barry McCaffrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-mccaffrey/)

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> [We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/we-have-advanced-far-enough-to-say-that-democracy-is-a-way-of-life-we/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [“The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-popper/the-most-we-can-say-of-democracy-or-freedom-is-that-they-give-our/)

[Karl Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-popper/)

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> [“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dario-de-judicibus/in-a-dictatorship-you-must-be-careful-about-what-you-say-in-a/)

[Dario de Judicibus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dario-de-judicibus/)

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> [I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/i-would-say-democracy-once-meant-an-organizational-society-and-a/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-say-that-democracy-can-never-prove-itself-beyond-cavil-until-it/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-judd/people-often-say-that-in-a-democracy-decisions-are-made-by-a-majority/)

[Walter Judd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-judd/)

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> [It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt/it-is-time-to-provide-a-smashing-answer-for-those-cynical-men-who-say/)

[Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-d-roosevelt/)

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> [Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/did-you-too-o-friend-suppose-democracy-was-only-for-elections-for/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deforest-soaries/what-we-say-is-that-democracy-means-that-you-have-the-right-to-vote/)

[DeForest Soaries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deforest-soaries/)

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> [It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-popper/it-is-wrong-and-dangerous-to-extol-freedom-by-telling-people-that/)

[Karl Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-popper/)

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> [Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-castro-espin/cuba-is-not-like-bourgeois-democracy-the-ones-that-imposes-the/)

[Alejandro Castro Espin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-castro-espin/)

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> [I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/i-do-not-say-that-democracy-has-been-more-pernicious-on-the-whole-and-2/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [“They say that democracy cannot be adopted; it has to be adapted to the African way of thinking. What does that mean?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-ballano-gonzalo/they-say-that-democracy-cannot-be-adopted-it-has-to-be-adapted-to-the/)

[Fernando Ballano Gonzalo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-ballano-gonzalo/)

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> [“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. What is it that Mister Churchill used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-brooks/it-s-a-lot-easier-to-blow-up-trains-than-to-make-them-run-on-time-2/)

[Max Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-brooks/)

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> [“The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aneurin-bevan/the-worst-thing-i-can-say-about-democracy-is-that-it-has-tolerated-2/)

[Aneurin Bevan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aneurin-bevan/)

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