Quotes About Democracy

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

People, your Government has returned to you!

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

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