Quotes About Democracy

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.