Top Democracy Quotes

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.

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.

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.

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking b...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majori...

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in...

On paper, the people now choose the party nominees for president. And yet, the process seems to have come full circle. [back to party bosses choosing] Voters theoretically get to pick the candidates,...

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!Nonsense! Nonsense! snorted Tasbrough. That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen.The answer to that,...

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are to...

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddli...

If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and feeling, the whole stream...

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Any leader who feel the pain and fight for you. Support him or you lose but if that leader doesn't feel the pain and fight for you. Don't support him, fight for yourself, be a leader and fight for oth...

The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized the actual absurdity of the situation and began to...

Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as the evil of a small group of individuals achieving a secure mon...

Presidents are selected, not elected.

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy from the Constitution. The Constitution gains its leg...