Quotes
Quotes about Democracy
The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
A democracy,--that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people;of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."
Democracy passes into despotism.
Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
