Democracy Quote by Anne Applebaum

Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around.…

— David Frum

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of…

— Shirin Ebadi

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what…

— Frank Gehry

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

— Walt Whitman