Quotes About Democracy

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

People who hand over democracy in exchange for economic security end up losing both things.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

We need to balance between democracy and law and order.

The only people that should vote should be legal.

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.