Democracy Quote by Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

— Helen Thomas

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

— Michael Moore

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

— Malalai Joya

“In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.”

— Jayseth Guberman

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

— Mao Zedong

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

— William J. Clinton

“One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is…

— Evan Osnos

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

— Desmond Tutu

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

— Edward Abbey

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not…

— Edward Abbey

We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton