Quotes About Democracy

Thank God for paper ballots.

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

I've had the honour of being elected as a Labour councillor, MP and mayor, thanks to the hard work of Labour members, and I believe that the will of our membership should be respected.

As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

There's no way in the world that the United States does not want to spread democratic ideals, but the first thing we have to do is that which is the interest of our security.

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the government interfering.

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

We live, contented and safe, with the idea that in a civilized country, in the mostly cultured and democratic environment of our times, such a coercive regime is impossible. We forget that in unstable countries, a certain political structure can lead to indoctrination and terror, where individual elements and stages of brainwashing are already implemented. This, at first, is quite inconspicuous. However, often in a very short time, it can develop into a full undemocratic totalitarian system.26

La democracia solo puede triunfar si prosperan instituciones intermedias, como las Iglesias.

If democratic majorities come to believe that transferring social control to governmental and private institutional elites is necessary to guarantee virtue and safety, then it will happen.

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people', and the origin of the modern term republic.

the world's first functioning democracy is usually said to have been created in Athens during the years 508–507 BCE.

during the 460s BCE, Athenian democracy had been radically overhauled.

it seems to have been only at this time that the word demokratia came to be coined