Quotes about Democracy
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
- Andrew Jackson
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
- Jordan Peterson
One of the best things that we have in India is a free press.
- Shabana Azmi
In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.
- Peter Marshall
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
- Barack Obama
It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.
- Diane Guerrero
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
- Al Gore
I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.
- Olga Tokarczuk
I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.
- John Kani