Quotes About Democracy

It is time for South Carolina to rejoin the Union. It is time to fall in step with the other states and to adopt the American way of conducting elections.… Racial distinctions cannot exist in the machinery that selects the officers and lawmakers of the United States.

That act, on December 7, 1787, is perhaps Delaware's sole claim to distinction as a champion of democracy. Certainly it was long hostile to the Negro, probably longer and more defiantly so than any other state outside of the Confederacy.

Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count.

Freedom consists of conforming to the will of the majority.

mayor sueño de la democracia consiste en elevar al proletariado hasta el nivel de estupidez de la burguesía», escribió Flaubert.

The whole dream of democracy,' he wrote, 'is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy, is forthwith punished as an assault upon society, and is branded as Socialism

it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.