Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas B. Macaulay

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas Jefferson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Vilfredo Pareto

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Ronald Reagan

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Romano Prodi

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Rory Stewart

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

Susan Rice

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

Susan Rice

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Susan George

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Peter Ustinov

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter L. Berger

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Phil Donahue

There is no democracy without dissent.

Pierre Trudeau

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Phylicia Rashad

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Randall Robinson

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Lewis Mumford

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Stephane Hessel

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Vaclav Klaus

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus

As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Stefan Molyneux

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Stanley Fish

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Sidney Hook

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Thurgood Marshall

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Thucydides

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...

Robert A. Dahl

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

Robert A. Dahl

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats