Quotes About Democracy

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

Democrats believe that when more people vote, it's not just good for our party; it's good for democracy.

Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

The idea of red-washing or blue-washing an entire county because a few more people vote one way or the other does a disservice to the people who live there.

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

According to House minority leader Richard Gephardt: "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.

attained democracy, as brutal dictatorships took over, led to the cynical phrase: One man, one vote-one time.

Dado que las elecciones democráticas se realizan siempre a corto plazo, los políticos tienen todos los incentivos para extraer tanta riqueza como les sea posible del capital fijo bajo su jurisdicción, ya sea a través de impuestos, de la imposición de cargas sobre la propiedad o de la expropiación. Solamente la conciencia del público sobre las consecuencias a largo plazo puede limitar esta forma de explotación.

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention treatment.

In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never because he is evil. That is, after all, what distinguishes a democracy from a theocracy.

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.

Democracy is incapable of empire

not long afterwards nearly the whole Hellenic world was in commotion; in every city the chiefs of the democracy and of the oligarchy were struggling, the one to bring in the Athenians, the other the Lacedaemonians.

In today's world the enemy lies within the people; the people are the vital ground, and the aim is not physical occupation of the enemy's territory but occupation of people's minds with the concepts of democracy and freedom.

Sonhar o futuro não está reservado aos tecnólogos. O governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo exige também uma reinvenção massiva para o século XXI.

We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why.15

Women would then need to resort to the ballot box to request that protection—assuming the majority sees fit to give them the right/privilege to vote.