Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. That can never happen except through nonviolence. No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak.
Democracy… is a condition where people believe that other people are as good as they are.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
