Quotes About Democracy

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

The only security of all is in a free press.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.