Democracy Quote by Michael Portillo

No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war…

— Bill Clinton

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

— David Starkey

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

— Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

— Langston Hughes

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

— James Weldon Johnson

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

— Arthur Scargill

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

— George Monbiot

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

— Isaac Asimov

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

— E. J. Dionne

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

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft.…

— Joseph Cook