Democracy Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Democracy ceases to be so if it is governed by permanent majoritarian identities of any kind.”

— Romila Thapar

“I have come to the progressive realization that what we think is what we become.”

— Ndiritu Wahome

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“This is the Apocalypse, not a democracy,”

— Sean Platt

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.”

— Jack Lessenberry

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

— George H. W. Bush

“We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?”

— Anna Jae

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

— J. William Fulbright