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Quotes About Democracy

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
~ Karl Liebknecht
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.
~ Malala Yousafzai
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.
~ Banksy
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
~ Jalal Talabani
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
~ Federico Mayor Zaragoza
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
~ Shigeru Yoshida
I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
~ Benazir Bhutto
May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy
~ Ted Nugent
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
~ Stephane Hessel
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
~ Peter Hain
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
~ Homer
Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
~ Remi Kanazi
In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.
~ Annette Lu
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
~ William J. Clinton
Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.
~ George W. Bush
Our aim is a democratic peace.
~ George W. Bush
Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.
~ George W. Bush
Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri