Quotes About Democracy

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.