Quotes About Democracy

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

People want the government to go back to the people.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.