Quotes About Democracy

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But in particular, cupcakes

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!