Democracy Quote by Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever…

— Ronald Reagan

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government…

— Matthew Yglesias

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain…

— Thurgood Marshall

The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost…

— Timothy D. Snyder

There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.

— Nina Turner

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally…

— John Allen Fraser

Democracy is worth having, but it's something that you have to work on, you have to fight for.

— Lloyd Austin

if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

— Marie Stopes

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

— Edward Bellamy

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

— Victoria Woodhull