~ Democracy Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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