Democracy Quotes

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

Nick Nuessle

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

J. William Fulbright

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Bertrand Russell

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

William Penn

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Stephen King

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Abraham Lincoln

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

Leon Trotsky

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Ambrose Bierce

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Eugene Debs

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addr