Quotes About Democracy

Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.

Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

Y sin duda la violencia seguirá existiendo hasta cuando nuestras naciones alcancen una democracia verosímil y hagan realidad los supuestos mínimos de igualdad que pregonan sus leyes. La

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

Like any crowd in a democracy they were looking for someone to vent their anger on

One of the crucial traits of real leaders in a democracy is the ability to help people become better informed so that society can make better choices.

America, to me, is freedom.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.