Quotes About Democracy

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

To save our democracy, we must restructure our economy to make us equal Americans.

I hate that 74 million of my compatriots voted to keep in power our worst president, who convinced most of them that the election was stolen. The stab in the back will fester in their minds for years, a threat to the rest of us. But it's too easy to be riveted to that disturbing number and forget the 81 million who voted him out.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

My father once told me that American democracy is a people's democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.

Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.

The wheel of democracy turns slowly.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

As my father once explained to me, our "rights" are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people's democracy here in America, as great as the people of this country can be, but also as fallible, we must stay ever vigilant in the face of any "tyranny" of the majority, no matter the stated objective.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

In a dynamic democratic society it is indeed difficult to keep in harness the forces of competition.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.