Democracy Quotes

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government Democracy Alien Power Country President Our Rulers Ourselves Never Never Forget Over Voters Ultimate Government Officials Forget Senators Officials Us Let Us
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
Best Democracy Conversation Argument Voter Against Average
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov
Life Good Democracy Knowledge Ignorance Political Our Nurtured Way States Has-Been Constant Thread Winding Through Always Cult Been Cultural False Just Strain Means Your Notion United United States
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on. Thurgood Marshall
Democracy You Injustice Speak Country Out See Wrong Protect Make Because Inequality Pass Where Your
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy Socialism Equality Liberty Word Nothing One Word Seeks Restraint Common Difference While Notice Servitude
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. Louis L'Amour
Work Democracy Vote Nation Complain Must Simply Observers Participants Make Does Who Right
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education Democracy Unless Those Wisely Safeguard Real Cannot Succeed Choice Choose Who Therefore Express Prepared
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. Joe Biden
Faith Democracy Corruption Creativity Innovation Cancer Citizen Important National Diminishes Out Jobs Scares Eats Entire Investments Generations Instinct Talent Budgets Away Wastes
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. John Adams
Democracy Remember Long Suicide Lasts More Never Aristocracy Soon Itself Bloody Than Did Commit Either While Monarchy Wastes
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle
Democracy Degenerate Republics Decline
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis D. Brandeis
Great Democracy Wealth Country Few Both Concentrated Hands
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga
Democracy Corruption Law Debate Power Accountability Rule Rule Of Law Must Solutions Indignation Through Open Share Sharing Abuse Built Subjugation Information Societies Enlightenment
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. Bayard Rustin
Democracy Peace Achieve Building Become Society We Cannot Must Through Democratic Well Without End Discriminate Discrimination Anyone Cannot Process Against Then Means Violence Desire
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo
Life Wisdom Death Freedom Democracy Humanity Progress Hatred Poison Nation Tolerance Society Destroy Corrosive Life And Death Spirit Mentality Struggles Brutal Block Person Conscience Enmity
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken
Wisdom Democracy Ignorance Collective Individual Pathetic Belief
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
Democracy Remember Long Suicide Lasts Never Soon Itself Did Commit Wastes
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 your time voting. Charles Bukowski
Time Democracy You Vote Voting Dictatorship First Later Take Between Difference Orders Your Waste
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy Socialism Road
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato
Democracy Liberty Dictatorship Tyranny Extreme Out Arises Most Form Aggravated Naturally Slavery
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means. Ronald Reagan
Democracy Culture People Simple Political Free Free Press Own Differences Unions State Way Press System Reconcile Objective Through Propose Develop Parties Political Parties Quite Which Infrastructure Means Choose Foster Peaceful Universities
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
Good Democracy People Know Get Common Want Common People Hard Theory Deserve
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day. Charles B. Rangel
Veterans Day Day Freedom Democracy Veterans Made Country Our Honoring Sacrifices Name Very Many Foundation
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. John F. Kennedy
Success Hope Adversity Home Freedom Broken Democracy Will Honors Carries Neither Disappear Israel Demoralized Shield Nor Child Brave Order Endure Created Sword Flourish
If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. John McCain
Time Democracy You Free Lose Our Press Liberties Would Individual Over Adversarial Know Without How Am Very Times Dictators Get Afraid Want Much Many Serious Now Started Preserve
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. Robert Kennedy
Democracy Rights Responsibilities Citizenship Only Remind Us Elections
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. Hunter S. Thompson
Democracy Half Drained Out Only Votes Blood Dies Population
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