Quotes About Democracy

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.