Quotes About Democracy

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.