Quotes about Democracy
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
- Isabel Allende
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
- Calvin Coolidge
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Alexander Hamilton
Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
- Alexander Hamilton
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
- Alexander Hamilton
You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
- Michelle Obama
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
- Jesse Jackson
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
- Ben Carson
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
- Herbert Hoover