Quotes About Democracy

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.