Quotes about Democracy
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
- Hillary Clinton
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
- Hillary Clinton
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
- Myles Munroe
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
- Will Rogers
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
- Aristotle
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
- Harry S. Truman
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former
- Theodore Roosevelt
Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
- George W. Bush