Democracy Quote by John Langdon-Davies

If democracy is finished, all is lost.

— Mamata Banerjee

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams

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

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

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

— Klemens von Metternich

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

— Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

— Marian Wright Edelman

If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.

— Heather Cox Richardson