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.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

The one thing you've got going: your one vote.

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.

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.

They decreed that the American government always be controlled by the will of the people, not the people by the will of the government.

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.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

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?

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.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.