Quotes about Democracy

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.

All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.

In democratic states, the only governments founded on justice, it sometimes happens that a faction usurps power; then the whole rises up, and the necessary vindication of its right may go so far as armed conflict.

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the most broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the sort broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.