Democracy Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make…

— Subramanian Swamy

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

— Anonymous

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense…

— Henry Giroux

Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.

— Richard N. Haass

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

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

— Anthony Kennedy

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

— Barack Obama

“To prosper in this world, to gain felicity, victory and improvement, either for a man or a nation, there is but one thing requisite,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

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

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

— Maggie Hassan

Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken…

— David Frum