Quotes about Democracy
I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
- Michelle Obama
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.
- Frank Herbert
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.
- Martin Luther King III
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan
Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
- Ronald Reagan
If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice
- John Adams
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Alexander Hamilton
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson