Civilization Quote by Anonymous

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

— Fisher Ames

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

— Aristotle

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

— Bashar al-Assad

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

— Clinton Rossiter

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

— H. L. Mencken

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most…

— Aristotle

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin