Top Democracy Quotes

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and fal...

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

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.

Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western U...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who h...

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can b...

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent

Money has replaced the vote.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY.

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circums...

America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the peop...

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the ru...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.