Democracy Quote by Jacques Maritain

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

— Richard A. Clarke

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

— Jimmy Carter

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

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

— David Hogg

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the…

— David Lloyd George

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

— Jimmy Carter

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

— George Aiken

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas