Quotes About Democracy

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.