Quotes about Democracy
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
- James Madison
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
- Frederick Douglass
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
- Alexander Hamilton
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
- James Buchanan
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
- CS Lewis
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
- Will Rogers
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
- Reinhold Niebuhr