Quotes About Democracy

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Democracy is the Freedom of Humanity in all aspects of Life.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I don't change anything for someone unless I know they don't eat something. I don't create dishes that only celebs or friends would get. There's a democracy to the food that goes out in all my restaurants.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Food choices are about your future and that of your children. They are about nothing less than democracy in action.

But for the sake of simplicity we can speak about four dimensions: the way that evangelicals (1) adopted republican theories of politics, (2) took as their own democratic theories of society, (3) embraced liberal views of the economy (all discussed in this chapter), and (4) domesticated the Enlightenment for Christian purposes (examined in somewhat greater detail in the next chapter).

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.