Quotes about Democracy
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.
- Hillary Clinton
The one thing you've got going: your one vote.
- Shirley Chisholm
I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great country. I believe that every citizen wants to stand on the world stage and represent a noble country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of a democracy is not the sole possession of the strong.
- Maya Angelou
Perhaps well-meaning individuals temporarily forgot that we live in a nation where the majority does not impose its will on the minority simply because it can.
- Ben Carson
They decreed that the American government always be controlled by the will of the people, not the people by the will of the government.
- Ben Carson
God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.
- Josh McDowell
In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.
- Todd Young
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
We should not, therefore, be astonished when other nations view the United States as a "faltering democracy." How long would a basketball team that was ranked number one in the polls remain in that position if the student body, the school paper, and supporting faculty constantly pointed out its weaknesses?
- Ezra Taft Benson
People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
- Billy Graham
This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.
- George W. Bush