Quotes About Democracy

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.