Democracy is the lifeblood of a political system and these democracy quotes plays on this very fact. Read these famous majority quotations and sayings to know what makes democracy the most preferred forms of system.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
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.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don\\\'t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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