Top Democracy Quotes

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

Democracy Definition

(n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

(n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

(n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.

(n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, w...

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified...

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West P...

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the...