Democracy Quote by Maggie Hassan

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print…

— Katherine Graham

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

— Mary Parker Follett

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva

Our democracy is as strong as we make it. Its founding principle is that we voice our opinions, and that we are willing to…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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

— David Hogg

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is…

— Eugene Jarecki

I believe a real democracy can only flourish when you have your own nation state, your own identity, even your own flag you can…

— Geert Wilders

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of…

— Shirin Ebadi

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an…

— Jim Hightower

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr