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Democracy Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
- The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or…
- In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
- We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
- No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
- We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our…
- Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom…
- The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
- It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
- 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without…
- In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution…
- The real safeguard of democracy is education.
- The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such…
- Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
- History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people…
- I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
- Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President…
- Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
- The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than…
- We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
- The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than…
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood