Quotes About Democracy

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

They have no tsar in America—no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She

Democracy is a terrible way to run a country, isn't it?" she said.

He needs an overall majority to turn Germany into the brutal dictatorship he wants." "Will he get it?" Ethel asked. "No," said Walter. "Yes," said Maud. Walter said: "I don't believe the German people will ever actually vote for a dictatorship.

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy.

We have a democratically elected government," he said. "Why can't people let them get on with the job?" "Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.