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.
- Harry S. Truman
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
- Victor Hugo
All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.
- Victor Hugo
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.
- Victor Hugo
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.
- Carl Sagan
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.
- Carl Sagan
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- GK Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
- GK Chesterton
People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.
- Barack Obama
If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
- Ted Deutch
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.
- George W. Bush