Democracy Quotes

"Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country."

"In a democracy, there should be representation from every field."

"The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy."

"I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments."

"We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy."

"Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential."

"I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy."

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

John Dewey

"Public opinion in this country is everything."

"In democracies, each new generation is a new people."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

E. B. White

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"We must not be content with mere political democracy. We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within."