Quotes About Democracy

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!