Democracy Quotes
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Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
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The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.
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Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
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It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and democracy. But if things continue the way they are, I expect the situation to become more violent.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
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Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
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If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.
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Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
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I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.
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A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
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Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
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They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.
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Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.
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Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
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One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.
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A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
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'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.' Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.
