Quotes About Democracy

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?