Democracy Quotes

She (Margaret Thatcher) is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

A conquest made by a democracy is always odious to the subject states. It becomes thereby monarchical by a fiction, but it is always more oppressive than a monarchy, as the experience of all times and ages shows.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy… They are: equality of opportunity for youth and for others, jobs for those who can work, security for those who need it, the ending of special privilege for the few, the preservation of civil liberties for all, the enjoyment of the fruits […]

Only a base, vile, insignificant country can be democratic. A strong and heroic people tends to aristocracy.

Our constitution… favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy… Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation (we regard) him […]

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great 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.