Democracy Quotes

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

I will protect democracy with my life.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.