Quotes About Democracy

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.