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Democracy QuotesFamous Democracy quotes by popular authors such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Winston Churchill, Aristotle, Henry Mencken, Abraham Lincoln and others.
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[highlight-text]Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
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[highlight-text]Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.
E. M. Cioran
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[highlight-text]The world must be made safe for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunter Grass
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[highlight-text]It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
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[highlight-text]What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Alfred E. Smith
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[highlight-text]There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.
Hillary Clinton
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[highlight-text]The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Democracy is when the indigent and not the men of property are the rulers.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are ' but 'You are as good as I am.'
Theodore Parker
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[highlight-text]I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bent ham
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[highlight-text]The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
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[highlight-text]While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
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[highlight-text]Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[highlight-text]Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White
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[highlight-text]Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
James Bryant Conant
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[highlight-text]It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
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[highlight-text]The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson
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[highlight-text]A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering
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[highlight-text]If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
Simeon Strunsky
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[highlight-text]Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
Walter Lippmann
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[highlight-text]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.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right to govern himself with reason and justice.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this to the extent of the difference is no democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]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 government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy 'Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.'
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force violence pressure or compulsion with a view to conformity is both uncivilized and undemocratic.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]People often say that in a democracy decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
Walter H. Judd
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[highlight-text]It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it they pay the penalty but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
Calvin Coolidge