Quotes About Democracy

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.

Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy. They did this with the best of intentions, but it led to disaster. And out of that disaster, the Assad regime rose to power.

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.

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

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.