Quotes About Democracy

Money is important, but money doesn't buy you elections.

Democracy is about electoral competition.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion and we should be able to express it. This is what democracy is all about. If an issue is troubling your heart, you should be able to say it.

In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else down by saying it?

The vote is the last great equalizer that we have in this country.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

Every American should understand that their vote is secret.

Freedome in AMERICA

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Those poor people know Communism gives them bread, while democracy gives them a vote and a Letter to the Editor.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Er bestaat geen noodzakelijk verband tussen individuele vrijheid en democratie.

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation---this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.

democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks