Quotes About Democracy

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.