Quotes about Democracy
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
- Boots Riley
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
- Joyce Banda
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
- Richard Nixon
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
- Ronald Reagan
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.
- Erica Jong
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
- Andrew Carnegie
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Andrew Jackson