Quotes About Democracy

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.