Quotes About Democracy

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Governments are not representative.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.