1222 Democracy Quotes for You to Enjoy

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Montesquieu

Politics Democracy People Power Possessed Supreme Supreme Power Body

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? Muqtada al Sadr

Democracy People Dirty Feeble Leaders Leads Sheds Calls Blood Against Them Who Peaceful Away Bombs Resistance

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate. Nigel Farage

Democracy You Debate Country Control Back Proper Get Your

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. Novalis

Democracy Rights Men Christianity Fact Highest Root

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. Olusegun Obasanjo

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment. Patrisse Cullors

Democracy Rights Experience People Voting Black Long Past Experiment Presidential Fraught Failed Weird Over Voter Like Voting Rights Felt Been Years Tests Times American Poll Literacy Social Taxes Elections

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. Pete Domenici

Work Freedom Democracy You Too Starving Hungry Well Said

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets. Raghuram Rajan

Success Government Freedom Democracy Strong Law Political Free Three Important Accountability Add Liberal Rule Francis Rule Of Law Markets Would Economic Free Markets Argued Democratic Pillars Scientist Political Freedom American Fourth

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes. Rahul Gandhi

Democracy Destroying About Spreading Processes Decisions

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. Reinhold Niebuhr

War Democracy Peace Slow Once Indeed Embarked Martial Rather Reluctant Make Venture Equally Than Tolerable Vindictive

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy Problems Solutions Finding

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. Scott Turow

Education Democracy Knowledge Public Education Our Citizenry Maintain Like Well-Informed Access Pillars Public Public Access Widespread Guarantee

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing. Stephen Hadley

Good Freedom Democracy Remember Revolution Good Thing Anti-American Square Thing

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live. Stephen Vincent Benet

Life Freedom Democracy Rain Words Light Wind Big Own Orator Live Too Our Air Way Sun More Take Longer Know May Just Which Breathe Granted Challenged Ever Deeply

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. Steve King

Government Time Democracy History World First Fathers Our Would Constitutional Constitutional Republic Had Shaping Failures Because First Time Were Crafted Representation The History Of Form Republic Founding Founding Fathers

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything. Steven Van Zandt

Democracy You Human Being Simple Dictatorship Single Live Fathers Our Corporate Kind Responsible Simple Fact Fact Intended Human Beholden Being Hold Anything Certainly Reason Founding Founding Fathers

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. Teresa Heinz

Hope Democracy Trust Destroy One Thing Idealism Done The One Thing Cannot Thing

Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important. Theo Epstein

Democracy You Perspective Important Tolerance Ability Come Difference Different Place Conversations Different Place Even Fundamentally Honest

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. Theresa May

Democracy People Country Laws Make Judges Govern Essential Representatives Elected

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote. Timothy D. Snyder

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy Corruption Enemy Young See Mortal

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