Quotes About Democracy

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.