Quotes About Democracy

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.