Quotes
Quotes about Democracy
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits.
Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are democratic communists and totalitarian capitalists.
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
