Democracy Quote by Charles Evans Hughes

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

— Bill Moyers

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

— Anonymous

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

— Arlen Specter

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…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt