Quotes about Democracy
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
- GK Chesterton
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
- John Adams
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
- Charles Colson
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
- Mahatma Gandhi
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Graham Greene
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
- Helen Keller