Democracy Quote by Jesse Helms Download Open image “Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.” — Jesse Helms ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Good thing Good things Hands Used Used to be
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription. — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image